Ashley was waiting at the door for Alchemical Cabaret (look for the Unfringed review) to start, but it wasn’t the only Newcastle-based cabaret show on his mind. On Friday he plans to see the “fun and quirky” Ms Denis Gold with some friends.
He was also looking forward to seeing In a Pink Tutu which he explained was a black comedy about eight students who killed their teacher. “It sounds like fun!” he said.
I also bumped into Nadia from SURCAS (Sydney Uni’s circus group) at the box office. She has organised for a large group of students to watch Alchemical Cabaret Wednesday, but then couldn’t make it herself, so decided to see it earlier. She was very excited to see it: “Dangerboy is my glass-eating mentor!” she exclaimed, referring to Jason Hodgson’s danger act.
Nadia has already seen Lost and Found, and, as a hula-hoopist herself, particularly enjoyed the first and final scenes. “Some of the skills Heidi Hillier performed I had never seen live before – only on video.”
While I was talking to Nadia, Chris Baird stopped to say hello. Chris was on the way to his dressing-room for the Alchemical Cabaret performance, but he had just come from a performance of Blind As You See It. He was still laughing at the breaking of the wall between the puppeteers and the puppets, in a scene involving a suicidal chair. He recommended it as “experimental art with a dramatic sound and lighting scape… and chair liberation.”
Vox Popcorn is a series of quick interviews with fringe-goers about what they are seeing.
