Dance, Physical Theatre & Circus Review: Out, Summerhall (26), Edinburgh
There is an audaciousness to this two-hander that you can’t help admire, frustrating though it is at times.
Rachael Young and marikiscrycrycry (aka New York-born dance artist Malik Nashad Sharpe) are already in the zone when we enter the theatre. A heavy dance beat ushers us in (ear plugs provided for those with sensitive ears) and the atmosphere is dark and clubby.
Young and marikiscrycrycry set out to explore the need to fit in – to be ‘black enough, straight enough, Jamaican enough’. And although this is pertinent to them, there’s a universality to the desire to be ourselves meeting daily compromise.
Until 25 August