Skipton Puppet Festival is a biannual affair run by the resourceful Lempen Puppet Company.  Resourceful because over the three days the festival runs they manage to give the audience the full range of puppetry (for young and old, indoors and outdoors, national and international) in a town which isn’t blessed with obvious venues. The street programme featured S.A. Marionetas […]

Max Richter’s groundbreaking night-long lullaby is experienced from a camp-bed on-site at The Wellcome Collection Reading Room by Rebecca Nice, and from her own bed at home via Radio 3’s live broadcast by Dorothy Max Prior Rebecca Nice writes: British contemporary music composer Max Richter’s latest project Sleep formed the afterhours highlight of BBC Radio […]

It was difficult to watch Life Raft without being reminded of how a photograph of the body of a young boy washed up on a Turkish beach had just significantly shifted the conversation about how the world responds to the Syrian refugee crisis. In Bristol Old Vic’s powerfully resonant production, thirteen children are stranded aboard […]

Knowing Bristol and its various performance spaces well, I felt excited by the prospect of visiting this hitherto unused, mysterious place – The Lo-Co Klub – underneath the Victorian passenger sheds of Temple Meads Station. As audience members we were initiated into what felt like a dark process: given Germanic names written on a piece […]

The Old Market sits in a moody cul-de-sac in old Brunswick, which bridges the gap between Brighton and Hove – a splendid building illuminated by its own wall-mounted lamps, and additionally by two large lamp-posts standing proudly on the paved area in front of the building. Are they always there? They look as though they […]