We are in the thick of Arts Festival Dunedin and the first three nights have had audiences stamping on floors demanding encores and guffawing with uncontrolled laughter. On Friday and Saturday night, the Circa acrobats performed Beyond in Regent Theatre. As a double-jointed female acrobat twirled and descended to the sounds of a woman singing a stripped-down ukulele version of Radiohead's Fake Plastic Trees, a man wearing an oversize rabbit head sat on the corner of the stage, watching. The performance was beautifully surreal, like watching a mix of Donnie Darko and Tomb Raider. Outstanding. The performance dared the audience to unleash its inner...
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