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drinks Monday 2 June 08
DUBLIN ... Colman Higgins describes the scope and history of Dublin Gay Theatre Festival ... and reviews two of its shows ... Down Dangerous Passes Road ... Confessions of A Mormon Boy /// LONDON ... film on now ... La Question Humaine / Heartbeat Detector /// BRIGHTON ... It's on till 26 May and here's at least 20 Things you might want to know about Brighton Fringe /// PEOPLE ... Who was there at Fringe Report's First Monday 5 May - photographs & article /// CULTURE ... One Culture ... film screening 30 May booking now ... details
Fire Installation
Verdict: Fire, in little pieces
Dublin Fringe Festival 2006 - George’s Dock, IFSC Docklands – 9-10 Sept 06
An enormous roasting and smoking beehive of fire - visible a kilometre away and suspended over the river by a crane - is the first sight of Compagnie Carabosse’s Fire Installation.
Behind it on the former working George’s Dock – now effectively a water-feature for the green-glass offices of the International Financial Services Centre - are a dozen or more spherical and triangular frames of flame. The building seems on fire from their reflections.
While not as intense as the beehive, the frames have elegance and symmetry. Each is hollow, suspending about a hundred terracotta pots, all blazing with oil. More pots line the edge of the dock. So all four medieval elements are present: earth (the pots), air, water, fire.
Around the dock are several other curiosities: small matchstick men, pedalling their own feet while propelled by the wind; a circular perpetual-motion water-machine; and steam-age-style chimneys where attendants turn wheels to produce plumes of fire.
Company Credits: Commissioned by - Dublin Docklands Development Authority & Dublin Fringe Festival. Company - Compagnie Carabosse (France).
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(c) Colman Higgins 2006
reviewed Sunday 10 September 06 / George’s Dock
Fringe Report (c) Fringe Report 2002-2008
