Elixir
Underbelly Circus Hub
19 August 2017
5 Stars
Every visit to the Edinburgh Fringe should now include a visit to the Circus Hub on the Meadows, where you will always find something quirky and enjoyable. Elixir is certainly something different, a hugely enjoyable acrobatic show with a decent enough story line to fill an exhilarating hour.
The three performers not only use their highly fit bodies to carry out amazing routines, they also compete for attention from the audience, and display perfect comedy timing. The interaction with the audience is excellent, nobody minds being sprayed by sweat and water by these sexy boys, and each routine tops the previous one.
Set to a fantastic soundtrack, this is an hour of exhilarating fun that astonishes and delights in equal measure. They joke that social media discussion about the show should contain the hashtag #bestshowonthefringe. They may not be far from the truth!
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Paul is a playwright, director, actor, academic, (he has a PhD from the University of East Anglia), teacher and theatre reviewer! His plays include Living with Luke, (UK tour 2016), Play Something, (Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Drayton Arms Theatre, London 2018), , (2019), and now The Miner’s Crow, which won the inaugural Artist’s Pick of the Fringe Award at the first ever Colchester Fringe Festival 2021. In lockdown 2020 he created the audio series Isolation Alan, available on Youtube, and performed online in the Voice Box Festival. He is the founder member of Stage Write, a Colchester based theatre company, and his acting roles include Rupert in How We Love by Annette Brook, first performed at the Vaults Festival 2020 and revived at the Arcola and at Theatre Peckham in 2021. Follow: @stagewrite_
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