The new circus-based show from Ockham's Razor, Tipping Point, is at the Lowry in Salford until Saturday.
What I remembered as a light sting 15 years earlier, like being snapped by an elastic band, now felt like a thousand razor tips slicing into my skin.
I was grateful for a calm interlude with Ockham's Razor: Tipping Point (Venue 166), five mesmerising acrobats performing within a chalk circle with long white poles that support and, at times, obstruct them – like an elegantly graphic metaphor for life.
My father ignored my interest in bombs and razor-tipped rockets and led me down a path of interest in Naziism primarily because he was interested in all of those things and he was my role model.
Ockham's Razor's Tipping Point is at the Lawrence Batley, Huddersfield.
One of the highlights will be Ockham Razor's Tipping Point (Platform Theatre, N1, Mon to 23 Jan), in which the company teeter and climb on a forest of five-metre metal poles to a surround-sound musical landscape.
Tonight Ockham's Razor's very lovely Tipping Point is at Pontardawe arts centre, near Swansea.
Perceptions like "relative worth" and "value in the marketplace" balance on a razor thin edge and the "tipping point" for public opinion of higher education is now upon us.
As they waited for the plant manager to repair a fan belt on the shredder, the officers rummaged through the boxes one last time, uncovering a carrot peeler, some knitting needles, a bag of Bic razors and felt-tip markers (seized to prevent graffiti) amid the vicious-looking knives.
"I break the razor blade to make the tip and use that to carve minute details.
Pulled capillaries were broken to a narrow tip with a razor blade under a stereomicroscope, calibrated in mineral oil [ 51], and used to inject 0.4 nL pulses of in vitro transcribed mRNA into the blastomeres of 1-2 cembryosryos.
