THE DARK CARNIVAL by THE OLD VIC
Barra is playing the part of The Minstrel in The Old Vic Tunnels show THE DARK CARNIVAL
The Dark Carnival encourages the audience to move around the Old Vic Tunnels experiencing the art that they come across. At one table, the performance poet Andreas Grant asks us to sit down and gives us a personal reading from a menu of various themes. Being soppy souls, we opt for romance and are then treated to a couple of minutes of live poetry as Andreas recites with brio and without notes a poem he wrote on the topic.
At another table, EastEnd Cabaret‘s bizarre Bernadette Byrne and the slightly stranger Victor Victoria take a break from their musical sideshow to treat us to a fortune reading* using a pack of Uno cards. Elsewhere, a trio of actors take over a small space and a chair to give us a story of sexual persuasion (and, yes, that is a gun in his pocket).
Aside from this, there’s physical theatre, at least one live band, a tree of bunting dedicated to “lost things” and a metaphysical travel agency. We’re sure we missed some of the artists as we wandered around but there’s plenty to see and do in arguably the coolest performance space in London.
The Dark Carnival encourages the audience to move around the Old Vic Tunnels experiencing the art that they come across. At one table, the performance poet Andreas Grant asks us to sit down and gives us a personal reading from a menu of various themes. Being soppy souls, we opt for romance and are then treated to a couple of minutes of live poetry as Andreas recites with brio and without notes a poem he wrote on the topic.
At another table, EastEnd Cabaret‘s bizarre Bernadette Byrne and the slightly stranger Victor Victoria take a break from their musical sideshow to treat us to a fortune reading* using a pack of Uno cards. Elsewhere, a trio of actors take over a small space and a chair to give us a story of sexual persuasion (and, yes, that is a gun in his pocket).
Aside from this, there’s physical theatre, at least one live band, a tree of bunting dedicated to “lost things” and a metaphysical travel agency. We’re sure we missed some of the artists as we wandered around but there’s plenty to see and do in arguably the coolest performance space in London.