131 stories by "Francesca Peschier"
What happens when Bourgeois and Maurice (George Heyworth and Liv Morris), the satirical alien overlords of cabaret basements, write a full-scale musical?
Tom Hooper's big screen interpretation of Cats is a mess. It's a mess that misuses some of the worlds' best dancers and
Guys and Dolls is stuffed full of iconic images of 1920s America. There are dames, gangsters, dice games and more fedoras than
To mark the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, a show about Vaclav Havel, the former Czech Republic president and playwright, will
In her dying moments, Christine (Rebecca Manley) is granted the power to see her children, Ashe (Katie West), Jess (Witney White) and
It has been more than 60 years since the premiere of then 19-year-old Shelagh Delaney's debut play. Eight years after her death,
My Father the Tantric Masseur is ostensibly about Roann McCloskey's eccentric family, but really it's a look back on her own sexual
Both Chloe Mantripp's show, and the apparatus on which she performs it, defy categorisation. The set looks like a medieval torture device,
Hannah Ringham is dancing on her own. Spinning around the expansive, empty stage in red kitten heels. Arms pumping, she yells as
Emily Carding is one of the UK's leading Shakespearian actors. She's previously demonstrated her formidable talent and versatility in her one-woman versions
Everything I See I Swallow features three sets of ropes. Two standard aerial cords and a hoop strung with the silk strands
The audience files in to the sight of two dancers lost in a dancehall haze. Dressed in black fishnets, sunglasses and tiny
The ovarian cyst that Catherine Hoffmann had removed weighed more than 10lb and distorted her body and hormones in a manner similar
Victor Esses is on Facetime, guiding his mother around her childhood home via his phone. He talks us through the Lebanon flat
There is one proven way as a transgender individual to significantly lower your risk of hate crime, explains Edalia Day " be
You'll be hard pushed to find a circus gang with more technical gymnastic ability and joie de vivre than Flip Fabrique. Blizzard
Bait Theatre is going to Kill the Princess inside us all. Tired of society selling us false fairy tale endings, it's decided
You've got to laugh otherwise you'll cry. Or in Cristian Ceresoli's imagined dystopia, be seized in the dead of night by guards
In German, a Rabenmutter " raven mother " is one that puts her career above her children. When your career is circus,
Lucy McCormick's tackling of the New Testament in last year's fringe smash Triple Threat is a hard act to follow. Where do
Daniel Bye's baby is an exemplary baby. As Come Look at the Baby, the 2016 fringe hit proved, watching an adorable tiny
When someone dies, one of the hardest things is the realisation that you will never see them again. There will be no
Like all the best things in life, Rouge is at its best when the clothes come off. There are instances of total
"We put this bit in for people who came expecting more, you know, circus," announces one of the seven powerhouse-women of Yuck.
Mika Johnson has been through a lot in navigating love and the gender binary. The issue was never with Johnson not knowing
