Unsupervised
Your Other Left @ Gluttony (The Bally)
1:30pm, Sun 27 Feb 2011
It’s a hot Sunday afternoon, and positively sweltering within The Bally for the small crowd that gathered for this school classroom-themed circus event; most of the parents present missed much of the action as they busily fawned over their coddled offspring.
The two female / one male members of Your Other Left barely toyed with the classroom setting, but that didn’t impact the enjoyment of the performance at all; there was some requisite hooping and a lot of decent balance pieces, but more impressive were the throws: the smaller of the two females was swung and tossed with spectacular ease by the other two members. Throughout, the uniform-laden performers carried cheeky (and naïve) grins on their faces – along with painted-on freckles.
And, really, there’s not really that much more to say about Unsupervised. It was competently performed, but the short running time almost felt too short – and the experience was sadly diminished by a sullen crowd. Look up, people.