Yellow bird, oh so pretty, perches on a wooden bench, then clambers amongst the audience. She’s sweet and smiley, wearing a 1950s style cotton sundress with a pretty print of lemons and leaves. She clambers over the steeply tiered seats of Summerhall’s Demonstration Room, whispering in people’s ears. I have the best seat in the […]

You know when you’re reading a story to a child and they say ‘again!’ and you have to go back and tell it again? That. Our storyteller is Seth Kriebel, but he isn’t sitting in a cosy armchair, and there is no fringed standard lamp by his side. He’s sat at a desk lit by […]

So here is Peaseblossom: cheeky, chirpy, distributing flowers amongst the audience with a wink and a smile. The purple one is very special, she confides to the young woman sitting next to me in the front row. Take it – but when I ask, you’ll give it back to me, won’t you? She’s coming! says […]

We are here trying to find a translation. Are you listening? Do you understand? How are you doing? Are you assimilating, processing, interpreting? Perhaps you’re looking, reading the body language of the two women sitting side-by-side, joined at the hip by the voluptuous folds of dresses that billow over their chairs and on to the floor. One is […]

Grace Savage is many things: person, woman, performer, actor, beatboxer. Repeat British Champion Beatboxer to be precise. She is the sum of her parts and so is her one-woman theatrical debut Blind, created with female-led devising company The Paper Birds, and originally premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe 2014. This is a mostly-autobiographical collection of re-enacted […]