Cheese is a rare thing in the theatrical world: a play that genuinely keeps you guessing, amuses throughout, and has an important message burning through its heart. Debut playwright Nikki Schreiber catapults us into a bizarre world where Joe and Freya live in an Emmental house and everyone expects the cheese to be forever plentiful… […]

Truth is in our dreams’ said Eugene Ionesco. Mr et Mme Reve (Mr and Mrs Dream) is a theatrical dance show by Compagnie Pietragalla-Derouault, made in collaboration with a large software company called Dassault Systemes – an unusual type of collaboration, crossing art/science and art/business boundaries. The project uses video and other digital technologies within […]

Shimmering into the room in a shivering, slithering mass of black material, Lucy Hopkins emerges from within her cocoon to announce that she is an ‘Artist’. Now draped in her black shawl and dressed in a black role neck and leggings Hopkins paints a perfect pastiche. This character, who is our host for the next […]

Lisa Wolfe previews Dublin Theatre Festival It will be interesting to see, in perhaps a decade from now, if the current density of productions of Samuel Beckett’s plays and stories have influenced a younger generation of writers. Will there be a fashion for plays about loss, failure and regret? Will stages be populated with curious […]

Dorothy Max Prior on the Total Theatre Awards winners and nominees So that’s it – the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is done and dusted. Shows have ended, Awards have been given, and the colourful Brigadoon city (purple cows! red-and-gold Spiegeltents! lime-green Astroturf!) has melted into the mist, leaving behind the stern grey brick of all those […]