physical theatre

Circa, Barbican Theatre

Friday, 12 March 2010

Brisbane acrobats Circa: 'These lunatics know exactly what they are doing'

One of the daily tragedies of being human is that notions in our heads of unaided flight, levitation - any thought of lift-off from our material horizon - lie in drastic disproportion to what flesh and muscle permit. As children, we dream of flying...

Derevo: Absolute clowns

Tuesday, 16 January 2001

Clowns are supposed to be chubby, grinning, funny, with anarchic hair and big red noses, like Coco. Or they are Chaplin-types, oppressed little city folk mutely combating the vast machines of the working life. They are not generally shaven-headed...