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StorehouseBrenda White and Colin Higginson Storehouse is a performance installation based in a shop window exploring notions of collecting, preserving and curation. Through the window the audience view the performer contained within. Using light and coloured liquids, the curator brings to life fragments of the external environment. The audience are invited to contribute specimens to this 'museum'. Venue - see press for details |
London Mime Theatre presents Mozart PreposterousNola Rae Nola Rae proves her Queen of Mime title (see Fri.22) by taking on the Wolfgang Amadeus legend. The triumphant child never left the man. The man could never triumph like the child. Nola explores Mozart the musical phenomenon as infant, child and man. Speculating on what made him so endearingly and disastrously absurd, Nola now introduces Mozart the clown to an unsuspecting audience. The Rondo Theatre 8pm |
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Nola Rae is one of the pivotal, essential figures of modern British
Theatre. Being a mime, of course we mean theatre of a less conventional kind. Training in
ballet (Royal Ballet, London) and Mime with who else but Marcel Marceau himself, she
co-founded the legendary Friends Roadshow (with Jango Edwards) who revolutionised
performance comedy, clowning and even circus back in the '70s and whose influence is clear
in more than a handful of companies in this year's festival. As well as founding the
frankly superb London International Mime Festival twenty-odd years ago, she also has a
special resonance for Bath Fringe: when the current team took over a near-moribund
festival in 1992, it was Nola's clown face from that year's show that best incarnated the
spirit we were seeking and became that year's poster & programme cover.It's unalloyed
pleasure to have her back in Bath for not one but two shows, and they're both as essential
to your enjoyment of this year's festival as she is to the whole idea...
Tragik - Opening Party!Tragik are absolutely unique, they are a cult. They take Klezmer music and mix it with ska, brass, reggae, punk and swinging ragtime, then add surreal lyrics about life in the world of the Tragiks. The result is a swaying and vibrant noise absolutely full of good humour. Known for playing at many festivals! Window Art Centre 8pm
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Sounds FreeFirst in the summer's series of gigs you asked for! And all free! Watch out for all your favourite local bands (and some surprises) playing today and on the following dates: June 6 (Foxhill community event), June 27, August 1, August 29. Royal Victoria Park Bandstand Site
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Clod Ensemble The OvercoatSee Fri.22 May Ustinov Studio <UST23> |
Whiteoutplus special guests Magic Alex Whiteout - one of the only bands that can say Oasis supported them, and at Moles. Now back and hungrier than ever and plugging their new album 'Big Wow'. On stage at 10.30pm. Magic Alex - six mates playing classic British pop with a sizeable dollop of soul. A space rock monster with proper melody and sublime grooves created to kick the hell out of dadrock. On stage at 9.30pm. Moles Club |
Duffy & The GhostJham returns from 'Over the Moon' with new crowd-friendly acoustic pop gem Walcot Palais 9pm |
