Natalie is an acrobat. But she’s also a superhero. Or she would like to be. Her digital artist sidekick Mark can help with that. As she balances on her favourite…
Circusfest 2018 has got off to a cracking start – if you don’t believe me, check out our reviews of ‘Even When I Fall’ and ‘Hyena’. Happily, ‘Knot’ keeps up the…
Yablochkov Candle transports you to Paris in the early 30s, in a unique speakeasy type cabaret. The smoky atmosphere, between lights and shadows, is the perfect backdrop for the show to…
Inspired by physicist Henri Becquerel’s discovery of radioactivity, French company Groupe Bekkrell make their UK premier with their piece, The Bekkrell Effect. The main space at the Roundhouse is the…
CircusFest promises experimental contemporary theatre, No Show delivers on that promise. It defies neat categorisation, being in equal parts a performance, rehearsal, and educational lecture series. It is a deconstruction…
Every year roughly 10, 000 children are trafficked from Nepal to India. Many of these children end up, strange though it may seem, in a grotesque inversion of the classic…
Marketed as “the world’s first all-female Cyr troupe”, Alula are a company which impress and inspire before you even see their show. With backgrounds in dance, gymnastics and, perhaps surprisingly,…
“Everything is not always as it seems” – so runs the blurb for this show by the experimental circus collective Circumference. I would have done well, perhaps, to pay more…
Zoetrope is a Virtual Reality experience that has started off CircusFest 2018 at the Roundhouse. Circusfest celebrates all things circus, combined with other forms of art, and it celebrates the…