Performing Arts Review
Knock-Off is a contemporary circus show, which comprises of physical theatre using comedy, circus and music. The show was fun, energetic and thoroughly entertaining from beginning to end and explored what it takes to make a piece of 'contemporary art'. Definitely a show that had something for everyone....family fun!
Kaput - This show was thoroughly enjoyable and the energetic star Tom Flanagan from Tom Tom Crew and Circus Oz returns with his first solo show, which was entertaining from beginning to end. The show runs for an hour and Flanagan plays the part of a clumsy man who does his best to overcome the many obstacles he has created due to his own mishaps. Kaput was an energetic entanglement of mime, physical theatre, acrobatic comedy, slapstick and some audience participation with a good measure of chaos thrown in to create a debacle the whole family can enjoy. Kaput definitely delivered!
Porcelain Punch Travelling Medicine Show was the epitome of the ole travelling gypsy shows we have all seen in the movies. It mesmerised its audience with a somewhat gorish fascination, which made it hard to look away, even when you wanted to do so. The caberet show was based around an extraordinary elixir which boasts of being "the Curer of incurable conditions, bestower of beauty, extender of the under endowed" and the answer to immortality. The cast performs what they would have you believe are "amazing acts, fantastic feats" whilst exploring their exquisite oddities with old fashioned integrity and ambience to match. Throughout the show the cast rejoice and sing as they eagerly encourage the audience to partake in the phenomenon of Porcelain Punch Miracle Cure, which they actually sell on departure of the show, just as one would expect . I think it may have been the mesmerizing voice of the lead gypsy that had viewers entranced enough to buy the magical elixir, but they did and willingly. It tasted like some weirdly enhanced iced tea,but enhanced with what ;-0
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