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Awarded a Scotsman Fringe First 2010 for innovation and outstanding new writing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Keep your guard up. Protect yourself at all times. Protect your boy. Keep him safe. Keep him close. That’s all that matters.
Cameron Burns is going places. He’s going to see lights. He’s going to make the world take notice. He's fighting for his club, his Mum, his place in the world. And this boy is a natural. He has an affinity with the violence, the balance, the ritual, the grace, and the power.
Beautiful Burnout is a thrilling piece of highly physical theatre that immerses the audience in the explosive world of boxing. This award winning collaboration between Frantic Assembly and National Theatre of Scotland will assault your senses and challenge your preconceptions about the most controversial sport of our time.
Beautiful Burnout contains strong language, an age guide of 14+ is recommended.
The approximate running time is 90 minutes.
"This is stunning. Literally and metaphorically"
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY - OUTSTANDING
Tour Dates
SYDNEY FESTIVAL
York Theatre, Seymour Centre
18 - 29 January 2012
PERTH INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL
ABC Perth Studios
10 - 25 February 2012
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NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL
TSB Bank Arena
3 - 18 March 2012
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Creative Team
Writer: Bryony Lavery
Directors: Scott Graham & Steven Hoggett
Choreographed by the Directors with the Company
Featuring the music of: Underworld (www.underworldlive.com)
Design: Laura Hopkins
Lighting Design: Andy Purves
Sound Design: Carolyn Downing
Video Design: Ian William Galloway
Casting Director: Anne Henderson
Cast: Eddie Kay, Blythe Duff, Kevin Guthrie, Vicki Manderson, Stuart Martin, Taqi Nazeer, Ewan Stewart
Reviews
AUSTRALIA / NEW ZEALAND TOUR
"a dynamic, edge-of-your-seat masterpiece… Beautiful Burnout is a must-see at this year’s Sydney Festival"
ARTS HUB AUSTRALIA – FIVE STARS
"Beautiful Burnout takes its audience ringside for a breathless 90 minutes"
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
"thrilling, dangerous, spectacular and visceral… gloriously choreographed and tender to the point of tears"
STAGE NOISE
The movements of boxers are copied to near perfection. You really do feel like you’re ringside."
AUSTRALIAN STAGE
UK TOUR
"The theatre is routinely derided as being full of grey hair but it is a predominantly young audience at Beautiful Burnout"
THE OBSERVER
"A technical knockout"
THE SUNDAY TIMES - FOUR STARS
"Knockout collaboration, a success on all fronts"
THE LIST - FOUR STARS
"Beautiful Burnout is spectacular, lyrical and thought-provoking"
THE SCOTSMAN - FOUR STARS
"Pumping, sweat-drenched pieces of choreography that capture the raw, bruising power as well as the balletic grace of this bloody sport"
EVENING STANDARD - FOUR STARS
"A brilliantly acted exploration of what makes boxers box"
THE GUARDIAN - FOUR STARS
"Beautiful Burnout has all of the ingredients of a knock-out hit"
THE INDEPENDENT - FOUR STARS
"Frantic Assembly have created an impressively dynamic affair, with a crackingly well-drilled set of performances that pull no punches"
HERALD SCOTLAND - FOUR STARS
"An outstanding edge-of-your-seat thrill ride"
THE BIG ISSUE - FIVE STARS
"This look at a bunch of young Glaswegian boxing hopefuls (including a girl) is the finest work I have seen from them [Frantic Assembly] for some time"
FINANCIAL TIMES - FOUR STARS
