Adaptations of novels into one-person shows have yielded powerful theatre in the last few years: A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride at the Young Vic is one of my most memorable …
The War Inside, by Albany associate artist Camille Dawson, has to be seen (or rather, experienced) to be believed. In the style of good immersive theatre, we the audience are placed at the h…
Performance maker Tamara Micner's online show 'Old Friends' is a peculiar bag. Part-slumber party, part-storytelling show, it taps into a relatively universal experience, that of losing a ch…
COLAB have done it again with Flicker, an engrossing, sometimes unsettling, immersive experience that makes for an evening's entertainment that feels appropriate for the time of year, and th…
A few months ago, we reported that Iris Theatre, which operates from St Paul's Church, had launched an urgent appeal to save their venue from imminent closure after being forced to cancel th…
In the second of our series of Notes From The Front Line, I talk to Grace Church of Guttersnipe Theatre about their process of continuing to develop their devised project in lockdown over Zo…
In the first of a series of Notes From The Front Line interviews, I speak to director Max Lindsay about his experiences working on a show over Zoom in lockdown, to find out about how he's be…
Iris Theatre have this week cancelled their Escape To The Forest summer season and launched an urgent appeal to save the company from imminent closure.