765 stories by "Tim Bano"
Sometimes it's the little things that make a show, like a party bag on arrival or the splendour of an old wooden lecture theatre. Sometimes it's the big things, like a show that fiercely tac…
A play within a play is nothing new. But how about four plays within a play that are each simultaneously the individual fantasies of the four characters? That may not sound like it makes muc…
“So it's Shakespeare, right, but one of the actors is completely shit-faced and, like, can literally do anything!” They said to the E4 commissioner. “No, I'm afraid that's …
A “homemade, DIY, flat-pack, punk cabaret on the theme of queer”? By Total Theatre Award-nominated company Milk Presents? Close to midnight in an old church? Sure. Lucy, Ruby and…
Forgive me St Genesius, patron saint of theatre, for I have sinned. I have never seen a Secret Theatre show. At least, not until now. The cult theatrical elite gets the audience to pick from…
Nassim Soleimanpour, or at least the voice coming from the dictaphone claiming to be him, is going blind. He seems calm about it. His play is an attempt to make the audience experience what …
It is easy to speak of life and the wonders of human nature with trite, meaningless and fluffy words. It is harder but far more effective to show these things, as La Niña Barro does. The …
In summer 2012, the nation renegotiated its relationship with cynicism. Galvanised by Mitt Romney's ill-judged insult at the country's readiness for the Olympic Games there was a surge of so…
The boys are in black tie, the girls in diaphanous dresses. They chuck back whisky with alcoholic aplomb as they dance their way through a balletic take on the 'bash the Bullingdon' genre. I…
Spitting shards of lines and disjointed speech, three performers explain their individual journeys against the backdrop of an inexplicable catastrophe: one day, twelve planes fell from the s…
On the black stage a small white square is marked out. Then the opening line, "which floor?" and instantly the play is ominous, foreboding. A man and a woman are trapped in a lift. She (Jess…
Like Cervantes's sprawling book, this Don Quixote crosses many styles. It begins with a five minute scene, then a feedback " or rather 'feedforward' " session with the audience, explaining w…
A Jew and a Muslim walk into a bar. At least, they do in scene two. In the first scene they are in an office, two ruthless members of a sales team flogging software to clients on headsets by…
Memory is not linear and it is not reliable. Memory is slippery, fragmented, mischievous. And the further away we move from the moment something happened, the less whole and the less complet…
A bloodied woman draped in white lies on a table. A monk in habit and hood stands over her. A half naked Dracula appears and draws a knife clean across his neck, oozing thick blood from the …
