NOIR
- Production Company/Performer
- Airealism
- Category
- Dance & Physical Theatre
- Homepage
- www.airealism.com
- Synopsis
Film noir meets circus in a sky-high detective thriller: mysterious blondes, enigmatic clients, murder, mayhem and madness all collide in a quest for the truth. Gripping narrative woven into a spectacular visual feast for all ages.
NOIR is aerial physical theatre extraordinaire. A dramatic thriller, set in the 1940s taking ‘film noir’ as its motif, NOIR fuses the disciplines physical theatre and circus. Eleven aerialists take to the stage using cargo nets, trapeze, rope, silks and aerial hoop to tell the twisted tale of a detective desperately searching for the woman he loves in a vicious underworld fraught with danger.
After a sell-out run at the Albany, London 2007, NOIR went on to wow packed audiences at Glastonbury 2008. This version has been specially designed and adapted for the Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Fringe.
- Background
Airealism is an exciting new company specialising in performance circus arts. Starting life as a small community group, it rapidly developed into a fully-fledged troupe with contortionist actuaries, risk-addicted software specialists and balancing bankers all signing up to create a dynamic new breed of circus performer. In the past two years they have gone from strength to strength, performing in a sell-out run at the Albany theatre, wowing a packed-out big top at Glastonbury Festival, and showcasing two critically acclaimed cabaret shows at the cavernous Shunt Lounge under London Bridge. Airealism’s own Ilumi, a spectacular quartet of glow-in-the-dark trapeze artists, recently performed for White Mischief at Scala club, and at Paradise Gardens Festival.
‘unfeigned avant-gardism...
a truly transporting experience, yoking together images of delicacy and power with breathtaking skill’ Time Out
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Fringe Details
- Venue:Gilded Balloon TeviotVenue Dates:
5th, 7th-16th august
Price:£8.50/£7.50 (£7.50/£6.50) £5 previewTelephone booking:01316226552Online booking:http://www.gildedballoon.co.uk/edinburgh_fringe/fringe_show_details.php?show_ID=775Venue address:13 Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH8 9AJ


