Organisers of SO Festival, “the fastest-growing free festival in the East Midlands”, have revealed the line-up for this year’s 11-day event.
The festival promises “world-renowned theatre and some of the most innovative dance acts” which will visit the Lincolnshire towns of Horncastle, Louth, Alford, Woodhall Spa, Mablethorpe and Spilsby. The finale will be three days in Skegness.
Lorna Fulton, festival director for SO Festival, said, “the diversity of acts on this year’s programme really shows the festival is going to be unique this year with so many new and exciting attractions.
“The family-friendly event has grown from strength to strength since its humble beginnings in 2009. Every year we’ve seen the event grow to offer even more days on the programme and visiting even more towns across Lincolnshire.”
Among the highlights will be The Lift, a “roving theatrical experience that envelopes its audience, giving them a surreal experience that they won’t forget”. An elevator on wheels arrives accompanied by three bellhops and the audience is invited to step inside and choose a moment by selecting one of nine different “floor” buttons. Each button triggers a particular scene or event which is performed for both the audience member in The Lift and those on the outside looking in. In Skegness it will be presented by Wet Picnic in the Compass Gardens on Saturday and Sunday, 4 and 5 July.
Southpaw Dance Company will perform Carousel, a “visually spectacular and enthralling tale of a fairground after dark”, at Pier Field, Skegness on Friday 3 July at 9:15PM.
Inspired by Tennessee Williams’s play Camino Real and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, Candoco Dance Company’s Two for C “depicts a day in the life of a couple who are trapped in a stagnating relationship, characterised by struggle and power play”. It will be staged on Tower Esplanade at Skegness on Friday and Saturday, 3 and 4 July.
Visitors will be able to walk alongside a narrative show, The Wheel House by Acrojou, which unfolds inside its circular set as it rolls along. It will travel along the Tower Esplanade at Skegness on Saturday and Sunday, 4 and 5 July, and also Compass Gardens on the Sunday.
Further details about the event which takes place from Thursday 25 June until Sunday 5 July are available at the SO Festival web site.