An empty stage, cool blue lighting. A metal-framed hospital bed, and to each side of the performance space thin muslin curtains – translucent veils that obscure rather than hide. On the back wall, a screen. Bolt opens with moving image. Our point of view is from the ground, and we are looking up into the […]
Writings
Inconvenient Spoof: The Room In The Elephant
May 29th, 2015 by Lisa WolfeThe team who made last year’s Buddhism: Is It Just For Losers? (whose title was one of the funniest parts) have hit comedy gold this time, with a forty-five minute shake-down of performance that leads you right up the proverbial garden path and straight into the man-shed. It skewers all theatrical tropes and theories about […]
Wildheart & Lyric: Wolf Meat
May 28th, 2015 by Isobel SmithWolf Meat is a trouser-ripping side-splitting romp through Grandma Croydon’s twisted world of sex and drugs, pinching inspiration from fairy tales like Red Riding Hood and Cinderella, and cutting them with cop dramas and enough nods and winks, theatrical asides, thigh-wobble-claps, and other shocking surprises to take the legs out from beneath a less accomplished […]
Sam Green: The Measure of All Things
May 27th, 2015 by Dorothy Max PriorCinema: a shared banquet in a palace, or a snack consumed absent-mindedly on your iPhone? Sam Green is on a mission to find a new way for cinema to be presented, making it a live theatrical experience that, like any other form of theatre, is unique to this time and this shared space. What we […]
Laurie Anderson: All the Animals
May 27th, 2015 by Dorothy Max PriorWhat are the last things you see and say before you die and become dust? Do all oceans have walls? And why did the lark bury her father inside her own head? All the Animals, a specially commissioned show for Brighton Festival, sees Laurie Anderson piecing together excerpts from earlier shows to make something that […]
