Ostensibly, Wolf Meat follows an all-too-familiar contemporary plot: an overbearing drug lord, a grandson seeking love at the expense of family, a harassed maid plotting the family’s downfall, and an undercover cop looking to take them all down. This, however, is where familiarity ends. The drug lord is an incestuously-motivated grandmother, her grandson, Wolfie, a […]

Everyone here is trapped. Welsh ex-squaddie Zach (David Woods) has retreated to a cardboard box. His wife Carol (Jon Haynes) is trapped out of sight, perhaps in her own box, perhaps upside down, certainly in an unforgiving marriage. Band mate and fellow war veteran Ieuan (Jon Haynes again) is trapped outside by the door-chain and […]

Will the circle be unbroken? And is a better world awaiting in the sky? Ockham’s Razor breathtaking new show Tipping Point opens with the drawing of a circle, in salt and chalk, around the edges of the performance space, a square with the audience on all four sides. A safe space, a sacred space. May […]

Dorothy Max Prior speaks to Alexander Vantournhout and Bauke Lievens about the creation of ANECKXANDER: ‘a tragic autobiography of the body’. Is it circus? Is it dance? Is it performance art? Clown, even? ANECKXANDER, which comes to Jacksons Lane 22–24 January as part of the London International Mime Festival 2016, is all and none of […]

Oh what joy! Such clever clowning! What skilled Lazzi! In Marcel, the art of the gag lives on in objects that fight back (umbrellas, fold-up seats, cigarettes that won’t light), endless entrances and exits through invisible doors, and raincoats dragged on and off and inadvertently shared. But it is more, so much more. It is […]