• Fauna review – a mixed-bag menagerie

    Jacksons Lane, London
    Part of the London international mime festival, this technically accomplished, cross-genre work inspired by animal movements impresses, but lacks definitionSurprising, amusing, frequently physically impressive, occasionally frustrating – Fauna is a not quite circus, almost dance and nearly theatre. Such a cross-genre mix has been a feature of the London international mime festival since it launched in 1977. One of the few forms seldom seen there is the sort of white-f
  • Cirque du Soleil Ovo review – all glory and no story

    Royal Albert Hall, London
    The global circus troupe’s insect-themed extravaganza is technically astonishing but fails to engage on a deeper levelCirque du Soleil is an odd beast. At a time when circus is striving with every sinew to reinvent itself, and ensembles such as the NoFit State circus and Circumference are testing the conceptual boundaries, Soleil is resolutely moving in the opposite direction. Ovo, created in Montreal in 2009, is an arena spectacular that delivers huge set pieces

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