How do you tell a story? What is the right answer? What’s the next thing that should happen? It’s subtle, but at the heart of Forced Entertainment’s first ever show for children, the company continues probing into what makes something entertaining. And, as ever, they don’t play down to their audience, challenging us to work […]

“Ahoy!” calls the greeting from our Expedition Leader, Sir Peregrine Falcon, and we’re warmly welcomed into our journey to Antarctica. Gentle and jolly xylophones score our snowy space and we are quickly whipped aboard a small wooden boat to set sail to our destination, where we are hoping that we might catch sight of the […]

Dorothy Max Prior meets Joan and Barry Grantham – purveyors of Eccentric Dance and Popular Theatre… So here we are at Jacksons Lane, North London. At it again. A motley crew of professional actors and dancers of all sorts, and amateur enthusiasts of varying levels of ability and experience, all whiling away the afternoon doing […]

‘We live in a world where people want for nothing, we are safe and secure, we are progressive, we believe in the new…’ For your pleasure, at their leisure, 1927 present a brave new world: a Chrome-Crome-Yellow world in which automation liberates us from mundane tasks, turning us all into middle managers; a world that […]

Rachael Clerke dives in to defend Dartington’s living legacy in the BA Theatre at Falmouth University, which is threatened with closure  I have a vivid memory of sitting in a tutor’s office during my first semester as a student on the BA Theatre course at Dartington College of Arts, completely lost. ‘You mean we’re not […]