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Boxing Beauty: Compagnie Käfig brings vibrancy and spectacle to Edinburgh with Boxe Boxe

By Natasha Warder, 03 April 2014
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Reviewed at Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh on 1 April 2014
Programme
Boxe Boxe (Mourad Merzouki)
Performers
Compagnie Käfig
Debussy Quartet
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Natasha Warder
Natasha Warder
Natasha is a writer and performer. She is a graduate of the School of Music and Dance at San Francisco State University, and currently a postgraduate student at the University of Edinburgh in Creative Writing.