‘I work silly hours just so I have something to complain about…clip on earrings…couscous…’ these are what Sophie Rose, writer and solo performer of this show, calls ‘quiet violence.’ The small atrocities that we commit against ourselves on a daily basis without ever really questioning why. She begins by greeting her audience chirpily, chatting informally […]

With its title hinting towards a way of life and method of survival now the stuff of history lessons, this production invites us in to ‘meet Ireland’s most hated woman’. The woman turns out to be Peig, author of Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island, a real book at the […]

On taking your seat you’re immediately struck by the image on stage – a series of concentric circles shape the black space, framing the suggestion of a city in the distance. A series of amazing-looking clouds hang in rows coming from the back to the front. There’s a sense both of familiarity and magic. Of […]

This performance is a beautiful mix of a lot of different forms. The central performing character is a dancer and she is supported onstage by a singer/musician and a musician singer. This piece sometimes verges into a performed music gig with dance, but mainly it’s an amalgam of dance theatre, singing, and spoken word. Technically, […]

This puppetry and visual theatre performance from Indonesia takes as its starting point a bloody military coup that took place in 1965, opening with a video projection of (literal) puppet politicians giving speeches and live masked performers cheering the events waving red balloons and red flags. One either side of the white cotton screen that […]