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Be-Dom (4 stars)

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Be-Dom

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Portugal’s percussion-mad sextuplet make their Fringe debut with a dynamic show that combines the best elements of music, comedy and theatre. Using alternative instruments (including barrels, trash, bottles and the audience), 'Be-Dom' has created a performance guaranteed to thrill, uplift and make you shake your booty. An underground to smash hit sensation in their home country, the show uses music as a platform from which to bring an entire audience together in one rhythm. It’s part rock concert, part vaudeville and part wisecracking humour, absolutely perfect for a party taking place inside a giant purple cow. Ages: U

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Be-Dom

14 Aug 20104 stars

Joyous fun with Portuguese drums

As the huge white screen they’ve been playing behind in silhouette collapses to reveal what appears to be a junkyard full of cavorting, hunky (and fairly well-scrubbed) crusties, the tone is set for an hour of shambolic play. Switching fairly…

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1. Andy Haldane11 Aug 2010, 11:18am5 stars Be-Dom Report

Absolutely amazing, incredible, nothing like what I expected, a musical tour de force, but also very funny with loads of (quite tricky) audience participation for everyone to get involved and no one made to look daft.

Some of the most skilled percussionists I have ever seen (and I am a professional musician) yet the show wasn't about musical genius (even though it was evident in spades) but much more about entertainment.

Not for a minute boring, the dynamics worked to perfection, just as ideal for kids as young as three as well as the oldest and most hardened jazz aficionado, how's that for a broad entertainment demographic. A sort of Disney for the Fringe.

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