This intimate show staged in the round has Daniel Bye sitting with us as much as standing in the space. A simple grey circle of carpet taped down in the middle seems to define the performing area and it’s telling that as Daniel talks he spends almost all of his time not standing on the […]

Catherine Wheels are innovators in work for younger audiences. Previous Total Theatre award winners, with early-years production White, their current show (which has already scooped a Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland) is an exciting promenade piece for older children. We are met on the steps to the basement by Dr Broderick Mackenzie, welcoming our group […]

What becomes of the brokenhearted? They get over it, mostly. I know, I know – it hurts, there will never be another… But there usually is. We live, usually. But oh, the power of love! I Gave Him an Orchid circles around the story of Sarah Henley, who in 1885 attempts suicide by throwing herself […]

What’s the difference between paradise and utopia? Some say that paradise is eternal – it always was, is, and will be – whereas a utopia is created, built knowing what has gone before, with the intention of making something better. So perhaps this show should be called The Utopia Project, as what it is about […]

Photographic flipbooks, sometimes called flicker-books. You know what I mean? Those little things you flick with your thumb, producing an instant mini animation? Volker Gerling makes them. He  picks a subject, asks them to pose, takes 36 clickety-click shots in 12 seconds, then uses high-quality photographic paper to produce beautiful and unique artworks. He shows […]