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 […]

Returning for its second year at the Fringe (with a new set of stories) This Time Tomorrow offers an intriguing premise – the most intimate of site specific theatre that frames the audience as willing voyeur. We are led from the venue to a car park, to watch (participate in, almost) three separate pieces taking […]

Boxed In explores many of the issues that I am most passionate about; gender roles and the associated stereotyping of expected behaviours, society’s urge to ‘box in’ and label the sexes, and specifically its arguably deeply-established roots in childhood and parental attitudes. Further, as an FE drama lecturer, I have noticed how this has become […]

Every so often, a play comes along that changes the way that I think about theatre, and to me, that is one of the most exciting experiences of all. Having read but not seen Tim Crouch’s previous work, I came to An Oak Tree full of excitement but relatively unsure of what to expect; I […]

This powerful, affecting work interrogates the boundaries between man and machine through exploring Alan Turing’s life, achievements and eventual persecution based on his homosexuality. Best known for his instrumental role in cracking the German’s Enigma cipher during his time at Bletchley Park in World War 2, fiercely intelligent Turing also taught at Cambridge and developed […]