A line of white juggling balls cuts the stage in two. A light comes up on a barefooted dancer in a short black dress, her limbs whirling in frantic circles before fading out. Another spotlight picks up a man in a black suit delicately moving an imaginary juggling ball around his body. Accomplished ballerina Cristiano […]

Theatre O are leaders in interdisciplinary, physical theatre. Co-artistic directors Joseph Alford and Carolina Valdes have toured nationally and internationally with their bold and innovative productions. For their first performance at the Traverse they have collaborated with playwright Matthew Hurt to interpret Joseph Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent, the resulting show a co-production with the […]

From Where I’m Standing is a slick physical theatre production from youthful company Delirium. There’s a distinct Complicite aesthetic to the show, which has been both devised by the company and scripted (by writers Sarah Henley and Kate Robson-Stuart), producing a dynamic dramaturgy that effectively integrates design elements and ensemble storytelling. Focusing on the Mumbai […]

Perth Theatre Company and Weeping Spoon productions (Tim Watts, Arielle Gray and Chris Isaacs) burst onto the British theatre scene in 2011 on the tiny back of touchingly powerful animation/puppetry one-man dystopia story Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer, which deservedly went on to tour globally. Their follow-up show, It’s Dark Outside, comes freighted with expectation […]

The New Wolsey Young Associates are a fearsomely talented quartet who launch themselves headfirst into Party Piece: a messy, hilarious celebration of house parties – the mornings after and the life ahead for its hungover victims. Jack, Lorna, Aidan and Steve fling themselves around in gay abandon as they recreate the heady hedonism of teenage […]