Writings

Blow Your Trumpets, Angels!

November 20th, 2024 by

The 60th performance of Truth to Power Café took place on 3 November 2024 in Vancouver Canada, as part of The Chutzpah! Festival: The Lisa Nemetz Festival of International Jewish Performing Arts. It was presented live with a simultaneous live-stream broadcast across the world. Dorothy Max Prior tuned in from afar, and reports here for […]

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Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir: The Fabulous Unknown

October 23rd, 2024 by

Live art musical and eco-lutionary experience The Fabulous Unknown is the latest performance piece by New-York based radical performance collective Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir (some of whom have been assembled here in the UK). Lorna Rees was at the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts in Brighton for Total Theatre Magazine. In case you are […]

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Show Pony

August 31st, 2024 by

Circus-theatre show Raven by Berlin-based Still Hungry was an enormous hit of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 and the London International Mime Festival 2020. Now the company are back with Show Pony, again created in collaboration with Bryony Kimmings. Ellie Higgins was there for Total Theatre Magazine A darkened, bare stage and three performers warming […]

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Fully Immersed

August 27th, 2024 by

Ellie Higgins sees three very different interactive shows at Summerhall for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024: You’re Needy (Sounds Frustrating) from Irish company tasteinyourmouth; Werewolf by Binge Culture from New Zealand; and Arcade, the latest shipping container show from UK company Darkfield I sit in the sun outside Tills bookshop, expectantly waiting for someone with […]

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Myths and Matriarchs

August 26th, 2024 by

Fay Jurriaanse explores three different shows seen during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024, all centred around female voices telling mythical stories : Gruoch: Lady Macbeth at Hill Street Theatre; Do Not Look Away: The Story of Medusa at the Scottish Storytelling Centre; and Fit Ye Sayin’ Quine at Greenside When I think of Edinburgh, I […]

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