{"id":1451,"date":"2011-08-20T20:55:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T20:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2018-01-24T21:33:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T21:33:57","slug":"a-one-man-tour-de-force-kalagora-hits-edinburgh-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/08\/a-one-man-tour-de-force-kalagora-hits-edinburgh-fringe\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A one-man tour-de-force&#8221; &#8211; Kalagora hits Edinburgh Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our spoken word theatre show Kalagora is half-way through its Edinburgh Fringe run,   and has picked up a five-star review from Broadway Baby.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis play is stunning in its simplicity and endeavour. A beautifully-worded monologue about the clash of civilisations, the changing sands of time and one man\u2019s place in it all. Kalagora is a thoroughly original, ingenious one-man production embodying the art forms and human diversity of the contemporary age. [&#8230;] the most mesmerising play I have had the pleasure of seeing\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwaybaby.com\/edinburgh-fringe\/10205-kalagora\">Broadway Baby<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201ca one-man tour\u2013de-force [&#8230;] very intense and energising hour, and the way it teemed with energy and images made me think of Salman Rushdie\u2019s work. A rewarding window onto a variety of worlds.\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/sgfringe.com\/category\/reviews\/theatre\/kalagora\/\">ScotsGay<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Kalagora<\/em> is a hymn to cities, to their richness, their colour, their noise, sprawl and energy, and to the process of cultural merging, mixing and melting that categorises the urban experience. [&#8230;] Bose\u2019s show captures that heady urban experience, the taxi drivers and the rough sleepers, the shifting skies and the glitter of glass. [&#8230;] His voice is resonant and versatile, switching between accents with ease; he\u2019s also an engaging performer, confident and capable of conveying subtle shifts in emotion.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/exeuntmagazine.com\/reviews\/kalagora\/\">Exeunt<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalagora.com\">Kalagora website here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edfringe.com\/whats-on\/theatre\/kalagora\">buy tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kalagora is at Zoo Roxy, Edinburgh, 5.25pm til 29 August.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our spoken word theatre show Kalagora is half-way through its Edinburgh Fringe run, and has picked up a five-star review from Broadway Baby. \u201cThis play is stunning in its simplicity and endeavour. A beautifully-worded monologue about the clash of civilisations, the changing sands of time and one man\u2019s place in it all. Kalagora is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,79],"tags":[279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16215,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/16215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}