The gentle strains of light piano music welcome the audience into the space, after a formal welcome from our hosts. As we settle we notice the musician – an elderly man in a flat cap who is singing wordlessly along to the music he is playing on the keyboard. Our hosts encourage us to sit […]

I was somewhat weary and wondered as I waited whether taking a punt on this late night American puppet cabaret was a decision I would quickly regret.  One hour later I was invigorated and giddy with delight, having stumbled across a performance so far up my alley it actually made me wince. Fairy Tale Theatre: […]

Following the award-winning Kraken, this show delivers another helping of the same delicious dish. This is not a reference to Wakenshaw’s boyish good looks, but his singular expertise in the art of divergent thinking. Over a number of routines he elaborates simple visual starting points into highly imaginative stories using his virtuoso skills as a […]

This cabaret showcase is overseen by the über-amusing ‘German’ rock duo, Otto and Astrid (actually, two Australian musician-clowns) who expertly teeter on the lips of the shambolic during improvised interactions with their special guests.  There are great participatory games with the audience, such as ’22 second disco’, and of course they play a selection of their […]

Part of the public art programme accompanying the development of the historic Wapping Wharf site on Bristol’s harbourside, A Thousand Seasons Past conjures up characters whose lives were shaped by the city’s docks and the gaol that operated in the area for most of the 1800s. Staged outside in a temporary auditorium on the water’s […]