Stilted performance

The seventh annual Warwick Summer Arts Festival ended on Sunday with the Carpetbag Brigade Physical Theater, an acrobatic stilt ensemble based in Oakland, California. The company presented its repertory performance “Mudfire,” originally inspired by summer forest fires that had sweep through western states. According to the group’s Web site, “the Carpetbag Brigade is a kinetic hybrid between the worlds of theater, dance and circus, and uses the dramaturgical scaffolds of European physical theater, to create site-specific performances and a touring repertoire.” Photo by Roger Gavan