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Tag Archives: circus

Starting as you mean to go on: Britten’s Les Illuminations at Aldeburgh Festival

Director Struan Leslie’s reimagining of Britten’s Les Illuminations song cycle opened the Aldeburgh Festival with an exciting array of circus performers, creating a dreamy evening without plot, but heady with potent mood,…

June 13, 2016 in Concert.

The Lion-Faced Man at Tête-à-Tête

We don’t laugh at oddities of nature in circus sideshows any more: sadly, we haven’t grown out of the propensity, but it’s simply become all too easy (and, for some,…

August 11, 2015 in Fringe, New writing, Opera.

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