An inventive exploration into the use of lighting in circus production, Illuminate offers wow factor acrobatics lit up by torches, fairy lights, sparkly hula hoops and flashing strobes. Performers tiptoe across a row of bottles filled with fairy lights, do backflips behind a semi-circle of lamps and aerially contort themselves in ropes with muscles all rippling in the spotlight. The juggler executes killer dance-juggling moves lit by glow-in-the-dark batons. Even the few odd stumbles add to all the drama in the darkness. Gasp-inducing and imaginative, the entertaining Illuminate presents old tricks in a creative new light.
Gasworks, The Clover Club , Melbourne Fringe Festival, to 4 Oct.
