Cabaret, opera, new writing in The Mix at Wilderness
Missy Fatale on stage as part of the Wilderness Playhouse Tricks and Tease Cabaret Night in The Mix.
Studio three sixty’s latest creation - The Mix - is an innovative pop-up venue, which combines cutting-edge technology and high design values with flexibility and an intimate atmosphere. At its launch at Wilderness Festival last month, The Mix became the festival’s Playhouse, hosting a variety of shows - from cabaret to chamber opera, theatre to stand-up, experimental writing to racy burlesque.
Rosie Cheeks’ contortions brought gasps from the audience.
Dunja’s surreal “La Foule” was both playful and dark.
Kitty Bang Bang’s fire-eating act had plenty of attitude.
While Missy Fatale captured the glamour and decadence of the 1920s with her stylish burlesque performance.
Ferkel - a charmingly melancholic clown with a mischievous grin shared provocative poetry and song.
Pop-up Opera presented Emmanuel Chabrier’s rarely-performed and zany operetta, set in the time of Louis XVI, “Une Education Manquée”.
Bristol-based theatre company Idiot Child in collaboration with Bristol Old Vic’s artist development programme, Ferment, shared a scratch performance of their latest production, “What if the plane falls out of the sky?”, a humorous exploration of how we deal with fear.
And there was Superbolt Theatre’s parody of Jurassic Park - “Dinosaur Park”, a big hit in Edinburgh last year.
The Wardrobe Ensemble explored the story of the class of ‘72 in their play “1972: The Future of Sex”.
And The Salon:collective entertained audiences with an unusual approach to performing Shakespeare, where the actors just learn their lines and their cues, but don’t read the play. The method the Bard himself employed, apparently....
To read more about The Mix at Wilderness, click here.