Keep on Moving

The last performance in this season’s current Centre Stage programme was a musical drama about a Victorian fairground.  FairGame theatre company developed the play based on interviews with a traveller family who told them about incidents from their lives.  Playing multiple parts the small cast managed to create the impression of a whole menagerie of wild animals, facinated and at times intimidating crowds, rival performers and a variety of acts.  They also gave a vivid sense of what it was like to be a child or young person living as part of a performer family.  The play recreated a sense not only of the fairground but also of a life before travel and television when knowlege of animals, different human characteristics and crime was more fragmentary and disturbing.  The play challenged us to think about our changing attitudes to animals, disability and difference.