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Without the music the libretto of Fantasio is virtually Shakespeare with romance, mistaken/altered identity, jesters and fools, a prince from Mantua etc. etc. With the music, and certainly in this production, it was almost an English pantomime, complete with a female principal boy, a dame . . .
CHARLES FOSTER on 12th June.
Foster shares what he learnt after choosing to live like a badger and a fox, amongst other woodland creatures, for periods of time. Eating what they eat, sleeping where they sleep, in an effort he tells us, not to feel so alone in the world.
Overall this was an excellent, jam-packed Festival spread over twelve exciting days with more than fifty acts performing in diverse locations ranging from proper theatres to garden sheds, from cafés to old factories. We clearly were not able to see all the shows and, as this is an English publication, we concentrated on shows that were LNP – Language No Problem . . .
No amount of light can distract the viewer from the somber undertones of these symbolic structures marked by an absence of safety, both in physicality, as well as an inherent emotional instability.
Although for all the performers Façade is a difficult piece and requires great virtuosity, the six musicians played brilliantly and really seemed to be enjoying themselves.
Piranesi achieved notoriety through his engravings of nightmarish prison scenes, the likes of which could have been used to illustrate Dante’s Inferno or scenes from a scary planet in Star Trek or Dr Who. They would equally be at home in one of today’s computer games – in fact the settings for Game of Thrones were inspired by the pictures.
Doko’s bold lines are reminiscent of a teenage rebellion akin to a hesitant cry for attention followed by an immediate apology in its awareness of its own undeserving.
One of the high-spots of the social and artistic calendar in Delft has become the twice yearly KunstKamer held in a five-hundred-year-old private house on the city’s Oude Delft canal. Ramon Dykgraaf and his partner Marc Cals throw open their doors to the public to show the work of half a dozen artists. The current exhibition shows the work of Michael Flynn, Catrin Howell, Wim Borst, Warffemius and André Joosten.
