The bubble street laboratory!
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During the Luaga und Losna festival, Dr. Bubble, Kurt Murray and Milkshake, Iulia Benze, open the doors of their bubble laboratory and put it twice on the street (today and yesterday) and once, Friday inside this time for another presentation. Today we’ll comment the outside one, you’ll have to wait until Saturday to read about the other show.
A whole new world of bubbles
The show begins without presentation,
and we’ll never know who are the character but we’re guessing easily that the
man – Dr. Bubble – is a scientist making some experiment about bubbles. His
costume looks like the one of a magician, and this is what he is, he creates new
things with ropes and sticks and give the impression that he is a bubble master!
He’s playing with bubbles, giving them a big size, small size, creating one bubble
in an inch or a multitude, he decides of everything. He even put fire on
bubble, make little bubbles from one huge, separate bubbles, he’s like God creating
life and beauty. He also makes smoking bubbles with a smoking pipe or with some
steamed tubes, he can combine one smoking bubble and a regular one but the most
impressive thing, he’s the fact that he’s able to separate a smoking bubble to
make one with smoke and one without…
All the performances come with
classical music who gives some colours to all the pieces we see. The show starts
with The Barber of Seville from Rossini
and the famous “Largo at factotum” (Figaro Arias) who presents the entertainer
with a dynamic melody. The Carmina
Burana from Carl Orff is used before the fire moment to let us understand that
it’s a risky and a crucial time, and to create some expectation for something
great and he doesn’t deceive us. The show’s ending with a rainbow of bubbles,
there’re floating everywhere and the children can dance with the bubbles on the
sound of "The Waltz of the flowers"
from Tchaikovsky like it’s telling us it’s the moment of reunion in which everyone
can be together under a sky of bubbles…
Even if the rain came to see the
show and probably prevented some tricks, the experience was fantastic, they used so many tools to give us new perspectives and enchanting parents and children
who can’t wait to blow the bubbles floating around them.
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The children invasion
The difficulties of a street bubble
show is that the bubbles can go everywhere, it’s more difficult to control it
in an open space that in a close one, so it’s probably a little normal than the
kids can’t control themselves and enter into the laboratory… Dr Bubble,
assisted by Milkshake, explain to the children that there is a circle around him
and they can’t cross it or he will reprimand them… he’s controlling this space
and giving orders with a whistle like a referee and he’s inflexible but that makes
him funny – for the others kids not for the one who crossed the line… But don’t
worry about it, he’s not violent, he just wants to keep them safe… But in the
meantime, he invites them to come inside the circle to make some experiments
with him. First, he teaches to one of them how making bubbles with his hands and
with eight others, he disguises them with bubbles and make them pose like that
in front of the audience.
The only one disappointment was the under
exploitation of Milkshake – that’s the reason why she’s not mentioned in the
first part – who was presented, in the synopsis, like someone scared of bubbles
who’s trying to learn how to control his fear with the doctor, and who finally
seems to be next to show… She really looks like an assistant more than a
character participating, and it’s a pity because her clown has a huge
potential. But we think that her indented is caused by the children who have to
be the stars of the show, the ones playing with bubbles… And we hope that for the
inside show of Friday, when the kids won’t be able to come on stage, she’ll
have a most important role!
The beauty of a street show is that
you can participate with the artists and in this way, the show is a real success,
all the parts are brilliants and we really enjoy this moment of poetry, humour
and sharing, even if sometimes, it’s a little too eye-catching with the children,
especially at the beginning.
Jérémy Engler, from L'Envolée Culturelle
