And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out was one of those most frustrating of fringe shows, where it’s clear lots of thinking and ideas have informed what you are watching onstage but they don’t make it into the work. A miniature train set loops around the space, there are two running machines, side by side, a drum […]

When a performance begins with an actor explaining the concept of the show to the audience you know something different is about to happen. It could go either way… Surrounded by words and texts in Blackwell’s sprawling bookshop, Creation Theatre present The Factory’s Odyssey. It is a new adventure for The Factory, and their second month […]

Platform 4’s Memory Point(s) is a site-specific piece set in and around The Point in Eastleigh. Formerly a Town Hall, the rambling building offers up staircases and corridors, corners and cupboards, as well as the backstage areas, dressing rooms and unseen parts of what is now a theatre. To create Memory Point(s) Platform 4 worked for 18 months alongside […]

Fringe First winner Rachel Blackman draws her three Stillpoint Theatre solo pieces together for the first time at the low-key CPT; striped over the week, then all in a day. Saturday’s performances begin with The Art of Catastrophe, an autobiographical slideshow by photographer Helen. As with all of Blackman’s work, there is a laudable honesty to […]

Formed in 2004, Lost Dog was created with the express aim of making work that blends theatre and dance within pieces that are framed by unique, character-driven stories. This triple bill at the Arnolfini presented three of the company’s short works. The Overhead Project opens with two individuals on stage in what at first appears to […]