Dance, Physical Theatre & Circus Review: Out, Summerhall (26), Edinburgh

There is an audaciousness to this two-hander that you can’t help admire, frustrating though it is at times.
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Rachael Young and marikiscrycrycry (aka New York-born dance artist Malik Nashad Sharpe) are already in the zone when we enter the theatre. A heavy dance beat ushers us in (ear plugs provided for those with sensitive ears) and the atmosphere is dark and clubby.

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Young and marikiscrycrycry set out to explore the need to fit in – to be ‘black enough, straight enough, Jamaican enough’. And although this is pertinent to them, there’s a universality to the desire to be ourselves meeting daily compromise.

Until 25 August

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