I’d love to see a future iteration that might have a greater emphasis on Daniel Riley’s choreography, and perhaps a slight reduction in the spoken text. We have much to continue to learn.
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Another Flipside Circus success: impressive and highly professional circus skills, set to a an upbeat playlist.
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Holding Achilles is a suitably ambitious telling of a truly epic tale. Visually stunning, with fabulous puppetry and fantastic insights from a questioning re-gendering of mythic heroes, Holding Achilles is definitely worth the price of admission.
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Summer Play Factor (SPF) is a playful acrobatic evocation of summer at the beach: witty, highly-skilled, closely-observed fun that is high on the acrobatic and balance ‘wow’ factor.
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Restless Dream was a special, one hour show about the Repatriation of Aboriginal Ancestral Remains—incorporating stunning film, William Barton’s didgeridoo, and the powerful truth-telling of Kamilaroi elder Uncle Bob Weatherall.
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Collision melds Casus Circus acrobatics with Mad Dance House’s hip-hop. Inspiring, funny, invigorating control, skill and sheer high-energy from six talented performers.
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Street Serenades is great way to bring the Brisbane Festival (and Queensland talent) to suburbs across Brisbane. And it is wonderful that it is all free. But the model still needs a little work…
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Love themes, a sextet of singers, great writing and a solid band. A Sunday sesh with heart. A version of this review first appeared at Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane.
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Perhaps it is too early to say that this is THE show of the 2021 Brisbane Festival, but for sheer entertainment Auntie’s Fiafia Night is going to be exceptionally difficult to beat.
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