Absurdity is not that abundant in British theatre, and so I applaud Eggs Collective for bringing it back with Late Night Love. The show is inspired by the confessional radio show of the same…
The first piece of theatre I ever saw was The Snowman and it was the magic of seeing someone flying on stage that drew me in to theatre. I still love the magic of theatre, but it isn't the t…
It is sad that it's still rare to see a stage dominated by women, so I'm pleased the cast of Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour dominated in the way they did. The six young women have an infect…
Catherine Ireton has a disarming voice and in Leaving Home Party she uses it to tell the story of how she left home, returned, and left again. Her personal story is used to explore the notio…
Can I Start Again Please is a challenging performance about the capacity of language to represent traumatic experience, particularly childhood sexual abuse. It is never going to be an easy w…
Menkind by Embrace Theatre is about Barry, Alan and Martin's journey into deep space on a Starr Intergalactic Tour Capsule. Â They are on a stag do, and the piece uses this to question the…
The Complete Deaths by Spymonkey is an exercise in theatricality and endurance. To perform all of Shakespeare's 75 on-stage deaths is no mean feat, and not to be taken on lightly. That's wha…
Echoes is an evocatively written two-hander from Spitting Image writer Henry Naylor. Â Interwoven monologues tell the stories of two women, separated by 175 years but united by parallels i…
In Liverpool a group of young people aged 16-22 are working on a play with a massive claim; The Environmentalists is the UK's first carbon neutral play. How this is possible is one of the fi…
Socially engaged, participatory work is a healthy part of any artistic practice. What is any art form without the community it serves? Even so, ArtWorks investigated the landscape for artist…
The art of storytelling is about as old as the human race, and ghost stories always have and always will prove popular. Digital-mapping experts Share Space & Light have cleverly tapped i…
Ready Salted Code's [data]Storm is a technological ballet where programme notes tell me that "classical ballet and computing collide". The production's visuals and choreography "use Me…
Remember the first time you got absorbed in a book and the whole world came to life in your head? That same awe and imaginative glee is to be found in Circa 69's The Cube. Blending Unity 3D …
As it becomes harder to remember a time when 'Google' wasn't a verb, questions are being asked about how our new technological landscape is changing the neuronal pathways in our brains. So w…
Dead Centre's acclaimed production Lippy is a nightmarish production that teeters on the brink of comprehension. 14Â years ago four female relatives in a small Irish town decided to die. T…
Comedy isn't a genre we tend to place alongside art about the Holocaust, but in Theatre in the Theresienstadt Ghetto the two go hand in hand. This collection of plays to be performed in Febr…
Photo credit Helen Murray Alex Brown began directing plays whilst studying at the University of Sussex and since graduating his career has flourished. Currently he is Associate Director on G…
Jamie Adkins is a clown. Not the white-faced big-shoed kind that makes children cry, but just an "ordinary man". His show, Circus Incognitus, playing Edinburgh this month, is so called becau…
Imagine running into an old teenage friend in a sauna. How would you react? Hiding " as writer, performer and spoken word artist Molly Naylor did " is an option many of us would probably con…
Paperfeet Theatre's Yes No Maybe at the Marlborough Theatre is one of the physical theatre offerings at Brighton Fringe. Described as "a compelling piece of physical theatre exploring our ev…
(5/5 Stars) I've often come out of the theatre inspired to live life differently; but whether I've felt upset at the state of the world or spurred on to make a change I've never seen anythin…
(3/5 Stars) Ever since Quentin Tarantino's Raging Bull we've known boxing stories can be about a lot more than just boxing. Snuff Box Theatre's Bitch Boxer sits somewhere between Tarantino's…
(1/5 Stars) Heiner Muller's works are not known to be the easiest to comprehend, watch and " I'm sure " work on. Muller is renowned for his complex, dense and poetic works and has often been…
(4/5 Stars) Made in China's Gym Party is about winning; it's about being the person everybody wants to dance with, the best kisser, the richest, the person with the best upbringing, and it's…
(4/5 Stars) Vamos Theatre's Finding Joy is an endearing, tender and playful look at what happens when a life begins to end. This full-mask performance is extremely well performed by a cast w…