Review: "Becoming Shades" at The Vaults

As a cool-ish, twenty-something person, I like to think that I spend my time doing cool twenty-something things. That said, never have I ever (before) found myself in a low-lit cavern below a railway arch, surrounded by firebreathers and people in black surgical masks. On a Thursday. 

This job is definitely boosting my street cred.

The reason we were in said cavern, was to watch the preview of Chivaree Circus’ most recent offering: Becoming Shades.

Billed as an “enthralling, intriguing, immersive circus re-imagining of Persephone’s presumed seduction by Hades”, the show fits into the line-up of this year’s Vaults’ Festival like a hand in a very arty glove.

Credit: Lidia Crisafulli