UpSide Down Edinburgh Festival- Fringe First Award 2001
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Playing on the edge of slapstick and dance, physical actions and body mime in role-reversing revelry, this bizarre odyssey through the human flesh and soul explores a neo-Frankenstein story with a sense of anatomic melancholy
Suggested by Rembrandt’s painting ‘The anatomy of Dr. Tulip’, this peculiar, paradoxical version of Mary Shelley’s 'Frankenstein’ hurtles into parallel topsy-turvy worlds of extreme paradox,taboos, demonic doctors, clowns and clones. In Faustian laboratory, three stupid ghosts enact black anatomical experiment at times hilarious, at others deadly threatening- that progressively develops into a strange carnival of shadowy and chaotic transformations. Zany, absurd and humorous, this darkly poetic mix of dance- theatre, anatomical movement and existential dramacombines pantomime- art, clowning, andacrobatics with bizarre and terrifying beautiful imagery.
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Press extracts ‘Upside Down’ is a bizarre, darkly humorous parable in which man plays God- and pays the price…a mesmerising and unsettling piece of dance theatre’Lyn Gardner THE GUARDIAN
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