Page 404 - Media Coverage Book - 75th Aldeburgh Festival 2024

Stage

Mayfest
Various locations, Bristol, to 26 May
Take the controller at interactive work asses.masses, where video gaming confronts
automation and the role of technology in our future, explore the aesthetics of horror in
Goner, or lie in a hammock and listen to birdsong with Memory of Birds. All tickets for
Bristol’s festival of international performance are pay what you can (minimum
£5). Kate Wyver

Kanan Gill
Touring to 26 May
The Netflix and Amazon star, best loved in India for his YouTube series Pretentious
Movie Reviews, toys with pretentiousness on stage, delivering (in his new show What Is
This?) slick and playful existential standup on the mysteries of identity, the vicissitudes
of Indian bureaucracy and his recent participation in the Tiramisù World Cup. Brian
Logan

NoFit State Circus
Bristol, 18 May to 2 June; Pembrokeshire, 13 to 30 June; Brighton, 8 to 25 August
NoFit State embody circus traditions – they travel in caravans, erect their own big top
wherever they go and celebrate an alternative way of life – and combine that with a
modern aesthetic and a political edge. New show Sabotage promises to be a gritty,
boisterous experience that challenges the status quo. Lyndsey Winship