Video and press

Video extracts

• Video of the beginning of the Dodo Show

• Video extract from the Harry Stork Cabaret

• Video of solo numbers

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Press extracts Alan Fairbairn solo with Théâtre Décalé

A highly talented clown and mime… goes way beyond what you normally see on cabaret stages… here rules the naked terror of the « thing world » and the absurd. And that is where the world of art begins.

Review of The Elasticated Man, Kölner Stadt Anzeiger, 03/12/91

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An absolutely riveting portrayal… it's Hitchocock's Birds seen in quite another way.

Review of No Joseph, der Standard, Vienna, 16/10/94

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With his expressive eyebrows, his look that could kill, and his malicious smile, Harry Stork dresses in a sober suit as if he has stepped out of a silent film. Alan Fairbairn has created a very original clown, with a pathetic as well as a piercingly intelligent dimension… very well constructed visual numbers

Review of the Festival des Clowns (The World of Harry Stork), Samovar Theatre, Paris, in l'Express, 16/05/2002

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Gags, visual associations and humour keep the dark subject matter moving even as the magician's disturbed personality emerges

Paris Free Voice, 1994

Press extracts from Théâtre Décalé, non-solo

Absolutely top class comics.

OVZ, Germany

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Mime, gesture and wordplay of a rarely seen precision.

Suddeutsche Zeitung, Germany

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Their mime and visual theatre belongs to the very best that was ever seen here in Bonn.

Bonner Rundshau, Germany

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Treasures of ingenuity

La Liberté de l'Est, France

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What precision in their attitudes, what fine use of space and position, what capacity to introduce disquietude

Est Républicain, France

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From the moment I first show them, they were strongly reminiscent of those street theatre geniuses Cliffhanger… But Théâtre Décalé are more spontaneous, more improvisational and take more risks

The Herald, Glasgow

Scanned press extracts

Scanner of the article « Bizarre magic and fun fill a surreal gap » :

Scanner of the article « Bizarre magic and fun fill a surreal gap » in full page

Scanner of the article « What's on in Mayfest » :

Scanner of the article « What's on in Mayfest » in full page

Scanner of the article« High jinks take a romp down the rue » :

Scanner of the article « High jinks take a romp down the rue » in full page

Scanner of the french article « Clown : drôle de zèbre » (Télérama) :

Scanner of the french article « Clown : drôle de zèbre » (Télérama) in full page; french transcription of the Télérama article

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