It has been said that the best way to provoke thought is often with a smile: the release of tension relaxes audiences before they’re landed with a good punch. So with big smiles, get ready for big punches… First up in a double-bill at Camden People’s Theatre’s Sprint festival is Jessica Latowicki. In a sparkling […]

Jochem Stavenuiter is fifteen. Slouchy, a grunter, in his bedroom turning up the volume on his masterblaster. He escapes to run fast across the fields to the dyke and to scream and scream. It is an instantly recognisable teenage response to crisis and perfectly captures the changes going on in the lives of Jochem and […]

So, what are we all doing when we meet in a theatre space? In a kindly way, Chris Goode, asks us ‘Why have we come? What are we hoping for? What are we dreading?’, and then, cheekily, ‘Are these questions rhetorical?’. The Forest & the Field is a comfortably cosy, immersive piece of non-fiction storytelling. There’s even […]

This is a dream-state, otherworldly imagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream– funny, playful, but possessing the dark urgency of a particularly bizarre dream that embroils the sleeper and occupies their thoughts even upon waking. This is the much-hyped collaboration between Bristol Old Vic’s artistic director Tom Morris and South African Handspring Puppet Company, whose previous partnership War […]

New company Black Fish invite audiences to visit Alaska, a weird and sometimes wonderful environment, inspired by wild North American landscapes, and focusing on one man’s calamitous experiences with them. This is a new company underpinned by the work of an old: both performers and the writer, Carl Grose, are old collaborators with Kneehigh, and […]