Ockham’s Razor – Sydney Festival

Overview

UK aerial theatre company Ockham's Razor will be strutting their heart-stopping stuff at this year’s Sydney Festival. Described as “daring yet refined acrobatics”, they present a triple bill of three distinct theatrical pieces exploring themes of reliance, isolation and interconnectivity.

The first piece, Arc, fuses circus and storytelling to investigate the complexities of human relationships, with performers interacting on a life raft structure suspended in mid-air. In Memento Mori, audiences are treated to a staggeringly agile pas de deux (mid-air, naturally) and in Every Action, four strangers affect each other on an elevated set of scales.

Ockham's Razor formed in 2004 as the brainchild of Alex Harvey, Charlotte Mooney and Tina Koch — three friends who met whilst training at Bristol's Circomedia. They've gained a reputation for being a young, risk-taking, highly expressive company. This is bound to be an exciting show for anyone interested in the future of physical theatre and circus.