Freefall is an acrobatic based show which, using sarcastic and awkward comic undertones, explores the subject of fear. From the instant the lights go up, the stage is a flurry of movement. The six performers move so quickly and so constantly that watching the show is similar to peering through a kaleidoscope, so beautiful but you simply don’t know where to look.
Winner of the Adelaide Fringe Best Circus (2010), the Tour Ready Award (2011), Melbourne Fringe Best Circus and Best Emerging Circus/Physical Theatre Performer Award (2011), Freefall is not a show to be missed. The show is put on by Gravity and Other Myths and abrogates all expectations of comic acrobatics. The show is witty but not pompous, talented but not boastful, it’s a cute, astonishing look at fear and embarrassment.
The show begins dimly lit with quiet stirring music and a recording of people discussing their greatest fear and what it truly means to be afraid. From there the performers are bestirred into a cheerful acrobatic piece which makes the first few minutes seem obfuscated. The show orbits back into the serious aspects but overall there is a powerful milieu of light heartedness. Freefall can be bifurcated into an earnest perspective of fear and embarrassment and a spectacular gymnastic show.
All of the performers mix comedy into their pieces, but the limelight is stolen by the hilarious Tilly Cobham-Hervey who hosts the evening. However she does not engage in some of the performances the others enter into so voraciously. The show ends with an apotropaic feel, after having left you are filled with nothing but cheer and excitement.
Freefall is a truly astonishing performance from some of the most talented South Australians in the business. This is a show to skip dinner with a soul mate over, one of the greatest acts at this year’s fringe.
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