Cartoon de Salvo is celebrating fifteen years of ‘surreal, unpretentious, swashbuckling theatre’. This perfectly describes Hunting the Shark, an entirely improvised play created on the spot on 5 April 2012 as part of Made Up‘s run at the Soho Theatre. As the title suggests, Made Up will yield an entirely different tale each evening, inspired by an audience member’s […]
Reviews
Dotted Line: The Lonely One
March 29th, 2012 by Miriam (Mim) KingDotted Line Theatre is a very new company formed this year by Rachel Warr, a theatre director, dramaturg and puppeteer. Drawing from a variety of theatrical disciplines, the company aim to create new original work with a strong narrative, and a distinctive visual style laced with a playful quality. The story ofThe Lonely One, based […]
New International Encounter / Ira Brand: Tales from a Sea Journey / Keine Angst
March 27th, 2012 by Charlotte SmithFrom the tip of Iceland, looking south, there is only ocean between you and Antarctica. Unless, of course, a container ship with New International Encounter (NIE) happens to be in your sight line. The company developed Tales from a Sea Journey on a ten-day trip from Le Havre, France to the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. (They then […]
Green Eyed Zero: Folie à Deux
March 23rd, 2012 by Geraldine HarrisGreen Eyed Zero have developed and created a giant touch screen that forms the centrepiece of their climbing-frame set, the whole of which represents a room in which two ‘mentally unwell’ characters live out their retreat. The two Circomedia-trained company members have also built this set themselves, and control their own sound and video cues […]
Kazuko Hohki: Incontinental
March 22nd, 2012 by Charlotte SmithLancaster bombers, audience aerobics, an outsize white feather boa, swirling planets and Japanese bedside tales are all part of Incontinental. But there’s no escaping that this is a play about faecal incontinence. Kazuko Hohki describes how it was born in the subsidised cappuccino surroundings of the Wellcome Trust. The onstage presence, patience and fluency of Alastair […]