Alan Fitter

In Come Alive! there are amazing acrobats, jugglers, tightrope and slack rope walkers, a performer suspended in the rafters by her hair, people doing fantastic somersaults twenty feet up after bouncing on a seesaw, others rolling around in neon hoops – the energy could have lit up the whole of the Earls Court area. However one of the problems was that it was often all going on at the same time you didn’t know where to look and also weaved amongst all of this was the nebulous narrative that didn’t seem to have much point. As well as all the circus performers there were some excellently choreographed dancers, three superb singers (Charlotte Hannah-Jones, Whitney Martins and Fallon Mondlane) and a five-piece band who sounded and felt like a lot more!