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PREVIEW: Elixir

The award-winning comic acrobatic show Elixir returns to the Spiegeltent at Brighton Fringe after their killer debut at last years Festival.

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Elixir is circus like you have never seen before – uninhibited by cliché or expectation, subversive and hilarious at the same time.

Acrobats fly five metres into the air on the teeter board, spin upside down on the mesmerising roue cyr wheel, perform incredible one arm hand stands on wobbling canes and balance on nothing but their heads on a swinging trapeze.

Elixir is an incredible display of acrobatics and physical comedy, tied together with an eccentric narrative.

The show, an all Australian production, follows three bumbling (albeit very handsome) scientists who attempt to create the elixir of life. The scientists test their concoctions on themselves, and the madness that breaks loose in the laboratory is the perfect mix of amazing acrobatics, impeccable comic timing and an engrossing narrative.

The three members of Head First Acrobats are all graduates of the National Institute of Circus Arts.

Elixir was voted in the top 10 shows of Adelaide Fringe in 2005, and won the first and foremost entertainment award in its UK debut at Brighton Fringe in 2015.

This is circus as you have never seen it before, uninhibited by cliché or expectation, subversive and hilarious at the same time. A unique show not to be missed.


Event: Elixir

Where: Spiegeltent – Old Steine Gardens – BN11GY

When: May 22-28

Time: 7.15pm

Cost: Tickets £10/£8

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PREVIEW: Daggers MacKenzie

She’s wanted dead or alive and she juggles knives. The one woman, knife juggling rock opera Daggers MacKenzie comes to Brighton Fringe.

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Ten whirlwind songs, four characters, and three knives flying dangerously close to her face: Melissa A. Kaplan’s original solo musical Daggers MacKenzie explores what happens when you fall in love with risk and fantasy.

Daggers, set in 1894, follows the story of Emma MacKenzie, a naïve American farm girl who is enchanted into the life of a circus perform by a charismatic carnival madam, tormented by romance and the performance life, and driven to a crime that brandishes her an outlaw.

Daggers MacKenzie sees Melissa Kaplan bring multiple characters to life with the help of big top skills and a formidable musical presence…..ThisIsCabaret.com

“It reminds me of the start of Ariel’s journey in the Little Mermaid,” Kaplan told Diva Magazine: “but instead of Ariel chasing the Prince, she sticks it out with Ursula a powerful, evil, seductive sea witch with gigantic boobs.”

[Kaplan is] a rich soprano….. The Boston Globe

A number of elements drove Kaplan, a trained musical performer and professional juggler, to create a one woman, lesbian circus indie pop rock opera: Her role as Yitzhak in a Boston run of the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch; a headlining European tour as guitarist with the Bitchfits, an all female Misfits tribute band; circus gigs; and her collaboration with longtime musical mentor and Melissa Etheridge guitarist Michael Eisenstein.


Event: Daggers MacKenzie

Where: Sweet St Andrew’s (Venue 263), Waterloo Street, Hove

When: May 19-22: May 24-26

Time: 8pm

Cost: £7 /£5

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