Every Fringe, Edinburgh fills with plays, comedy, musicals, children’s shows etc, and every year, we get some circus-like performances, where it is all about acrobatics and jaw-dropping stunts. It is because of this, that any company wanting to bring a ‘Circ du soleil’-alike show to Scotland’s capital, need to work not so much on their abilities, but on their presentation. Since, ultimately, an acrobatic show will repeat many of the stunts that the audience has seen before (due to the nature of their act), it is not so much what they can do, but how they do it that will have the audience enthralled or bored to death.
Controlled Falling Project has a neat premise into which present this death defying acts (or, if not completely death defying, at least, bone-breaking defying acts…), where a scientist is trying to win a Nobel Prize for his study of ‘controlled falling’ humans. The idea, if anything, is quite inventive, and it does allow for some clever settings, with three men (or human guinea pigs) executing whatever the scientist thinks of next.
The three acrobats are obviously skilled, performing some fantastic sets, while they are also very likeable, and keep the audience constantly involved in the action by nodding at them and flirting with the ladies. The only problem is that sense of deja vu that you can’t shake off. Yes they are very talented, and yes they are watchable, but ultimately, you have seen it all before, and you feel they need to reinvent the acrobatics’ routine, or you might get bored.
3/5 
Adrian G. Velazquez
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