Home sweet home! The stage is set as a studio apartment – or perhaps as an old-fashioned theatre set. A table and chairs, a wooden chest cum sofa, a pull-down bed, a bookcase, a toilet, two windows, a door. Two identically dressed men (black trousers and waistcoats, white shirts, white faces, slicked back black hair) […]

On stage is a large wheel and a low platform with a moving travelator. There is also a thunder-board and a slatted screen, some boxes, some lights. They are there as tools rather than a set; there are lights around the walls, cables, projectors. It is a casual affair. We are given a page of […]

‘Beneath how many layers do we hide our true selves?’ asks Phia Ménard of Company Non Nova. The question posed is explored not through words but through physical action, in one of the most intense, focused, and visceral solo performances you are likely to witness at this year’s London International Mime Festival (or indeed anywhere […]

Geraldine Pilgrim has been creating site-responsive performances and installations since long before Punchdrunk ever donned a mask or dreamthinkspeak first re-cast classic text into architectural form. Yet, for contemporary audiences, it’s hard not to encounter her work through the lenses of those other artists who have popularised the form in recent years. Pilgrim’s work rests […]

Dorothy Max Prior reflects on the recent works of Forced Entertainment The Basement arts centre in Brighton on a school night. A young and eager audience, and a stage set simply – just a square of wooden decking and a festoon of lights. Enter two performers, one male and one female, playing themselves (or versions […]