Miriam King reports on Grist to the Mill’s appearances at the Suspense Festival of Adult Puppetry Puppetry, object theatre, animation…  Suspense is a biennial festival that takes place in London in October and November. It aims to ‘explode the myth that surrounds puppetry in this country, proving that puppets aren’t just for kids.’  It showcases […]

The stage is a playground of visual delights. A backdrop of ruched and rumpled cardboard, a folding screen daubed with Picasso-blue squiggles and splurges, a giant metal cylinder that’s an odd cross between a German Wheel and a double-edged tightwire, and a kind of suspended roundabout that doesn’t look like it could hold the four […]

Laughing in the wreckage, standing defiant as the world throws things at you – and the rivalry of men up against it. These are the ideas at the heart of Petit Mal. We start in what seems to be a moody, gloomy garage or basement, the stage so dark that it’s hard to see what’s […]

Following a successful run this time last year, The Good Neighbour returns to take 6 – 11 year olds and their families on an interactive adventure through the beautiful Battersea Arts Centre. We’re ushered into the large Council Chamber as a group of over 100 people, and there meet George Neighbour and his accomplice Monique. […]

Let’s hear it for transformation. There is a slow tottering walk on stilettos, the body quivering in its shag-pile jacket and beaded thong, the head bejeweled, bald, white. On the sound system the slowed down groan of Nat King Cole’s ‘Mona Lisa’ and then the words: ‘Hello, I’m Lili Handel, let’s have a party.’ Quite […]