Best of Fringe FestN4: Colonial Circus | Suff(rage) | Then, Eve | VersUs
Jan 11, 2025
The final FestN4 winter theater festival at Orlando Fringe's ArtSpace before the organization exits Church Street is running now through Sunday, Jan. 13. Here are reviews of the top shows I've seen so far during the first two nights of the event.[content-1] Colonial Circus — A Hysterical Take on the History of Colonization
(Culture Opus Inc. — Toronto, Ontario)
Jan. 11 @ 10:10 pm, Jan. 12 @ 2:30 pm
White imperialists may have spread themselves across the globe like mayonnaise, but Brown folks finally get the last laugh in Colonial Circus, a brilliantly bizarre blitz through history that blends skillful absurdist slapstick with savage sociological satire. Storytellers Shreya Parashar and Sachin Sharma hail from India by way of Toronto, and their ridiculous recapitulation of how Britain raped their homeland by displacing indigenous deities with Jesus is equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking.