A fart joke in the first two minutes – that’s the way to do it! Happy days are here again! Where’s my wolf suit? Performance artist, writer and erstwhile stand-up comedian Rachel Mars presents – ta-da! – a perfectly pitched show investigating joke-telling and laughter. Brace yourselves for a mad-cap rollercoaster ride that takes you from […]

This inventive and physical production from new collaborative company Move to Stand was stunning in its honest simplicity, multi-faceted characterisation and visual symbolism. The feeling of heart and substance in a story executed with focused professionalism made The Collision of Things a joy to experience. A simple set consisting of adult and child-sized plastic chairs, […]

Junction 25 is a young people’s performance company that puts young people’s voices firmly into the centre of contemporary performance. For their 2013 Edinburgh show, they’ve created a piece of interactive work which sits close to my heart having made a piece about a very similar subject matter: success, failure and how we are set […]

In the evocative confines of a stationary minibus, Third Angel co-founder Alex Kelly takes us on a journey without ever actually leaving our parking space. This intriguing concept sees a small and attentive audience drawn in to Alex’s story of how, upon retirement, his grandfather set out to take the longest possible bus journey, one […]

What a pleasure it is to spend an hour in the company of Christopher Dobrowolski. There was a small group of us for his hour-long PowerPoint journey, and this intimacy felt like a classic festival find; a secret performance just for us… Dobrowolski’s car sits outside the Hunt and Darton cafe – a 1967 Triumph […]