The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley, Chris Goode and Company, Battersea Arts Centre, December 2nd 2011 Wound Man is a modern-day superhero. Not too 1970s, although he does land in a suburban neighbourhood in a silver thong. Instead, he mumbles about ‘consultancy’, ‘community’, ‘sustainable engagement’, ‘empowering other people’ – that sort of thing. Gently […]

Edits is the latest and last UK work from Lea Anderson’s all male company The Featherstonehaughs. Since forming the company in 1988, Anderson has built a reputation for diverse and playful dance works portraying men through unconventional imagery. The show has been touring alongside the excellentDraw on the Sketchbooks of Egon Schiele, yet unfortunately doesn’t do […]

It is rare to see a work that has an audience rushing for the exit in the first curtain call, a veritable snub, in full and uncontested view, to the artists, but3Abschied (3Farewells) appears to be such a work. This collaboration between the deeply structural Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and French post-structuralist dancer Jérôme Bel is […]

This is a show about the universe, about space and time, and about how we relate to it. It is about the relationship between sight, imagination and understanding. It is also about going blind. Enormous themes to be tackling in a tiny, black box, with the audience seated on four sides on stools, a minimal […]

Tonight at the Theatre Royal in Bath, Steven Berkoff shares two of the one-man pieces from his celebrated solo cannon, The Tell Tale Heart and Dog. Giving all of himself to his audience, he presents the work via the conduit of a vibrant single body. Berkoff is a heightened, expressionistic, ever-able thespian who is able to immerse an […]