Okay, so first of all? I need to become a bigger fan of normal things, and be less creepy about small physical theater groups and Occult Comedians. Those of you who know me outside of this NEVER UPDATED deviantart journal, will probably have heard me talking about Precarious at some point. They're the english physical theater company who wrote and produced "The Factory" last year, and god knows I loved the Factory. As a piece of performance? It just hit all my bases. The story was set in a dystopian world completely founded in consumerism, examining the ways that different people living in that world managed to exist and thrive within the system, before finally reaching their breaking point and taking industrial action.

The writing was fucking brilliant, the dance and the movement was brilliant, the relationship between the dialogue and the dance and the different characters just melded and complimented each other perfectly, and from not knowing what I was going into and really not being that big a fan of dance or physical theater, last year Precarious bowled me off my feet. The moment I came out of the first performance of it I knew I had to see it again, there was just so much there, so much more than you could take in in one viewing. So I went to see it again the next day. Then again on Friday. It was the most powerful piece of theater I have ever seen, and I wanted to share it with people, I wanted to talk about it!

Sometimes I go to shows with friends or family, and sometimes I go alone, now, none of my friends are that into dance (as I wasn't into dance myself for a long time), so as a general rule I couldn't convince them to come see it with me. So I went alone, and chatted to people in the line with me. I don't even think about it, if we're both going to do the same thing, and It's something I'm excited about, and the person next to me looks friendly? I don't tend to feel at all worried about just chatting to them a little, especially at the Edinburgh festival where there is always a sense of camaraderie and people are almost expecting to be accosted into a conversation with a stranger (although admittedly, this is usually a conversation laden with advertisement). So I talk to people, unfortunately, by now I've been to see Precarious a grand total of six times, and in these visits I have managed to get chatting to close friends of the performers twice, and on one occasion, the parents of the company founders. While I did have some great conversations with them, I do sort of worry that this is coming across as incredibly creepy. So probably, I need to back off from my great love of their work a little, and maybe not go see Anomie again when it starts touring.

Alternatively, I could go see it in a SECRET DISGUISE.

But that might make me more creepy again. ANYWAY, This isn't really much of a festival round up as it is an essay on my creepy Precarious love. I'll do another journal entry later doing an actual Festival round up.

Honest.