Reviews

Sarah Aiken’s dance/video work represents or dramatizes the concept of, if you will, being and nothingness – or, as she puts it, ‘the paradox… of the individual swollen to grotesque importance while also reduced to ineffectual even invisible impotence.’  It is as if Sarah Aiken is saying, ‘Make Your Life Count – if you can…

We are summoned to an audience with the Gods. At their table, complete with gold tablecloth and ample wine for a bacchanal of epic proportions are seated Cupid (the god of love), Hercules (the god of strength) and Dionysus (the god of wine), who beckon to us to join them in their revels!

There is so much to commend in this show - incredible circus skills, a well written funny script, clever lighting and sound plot, and above all, the talent of the four performers.

Barbaroi is set in a distant (or perhaps not too distant) time reminiscent of Mad Max, where staying alive means looking out for yourself at the expense of others. Barbaroi is also the Greek word for barbarian.

This world is populated by a troop of six performers (five male and one female). Their clothes and the dirt on their bodies signal their struggle to survive in this dystopian world.

Thirty years since he first performed at the Adelaide Fringe, Hung Le returns, triumphantly! Hung’s Fringe career started in those early, halcyon Fringe days at the Lion Arts Precinct, performing with Red Faces winners “The Como String Quartet”. The Quartet (with five members) had a meteoric rise to fame going from Hey, Hey It’s Saturday to performing comedy festivals across the globe, including a gig with The Muppets in London and supporting Weird Al Yankovic at the mammoth Montreal Comedy Festival, Just for Laughs.