‘At the beginning we didn’t have a map, or even a destination’ say Ockham’s Razor in the programme notes for their latest full-length show Not Until We Are Lost, which opened the London International Mime Festival 2013 at the brand spanking new Platform Theatre in King’s Cross (a cavernous building that is home to the […]

In terms of plot, The Zero Hour must surely be Imitating the Dog’s most ambitious production to date. Conceived as the final part of their Harry Kellerman Trilogy (following previous pieces Hotel Methuselah andKellerman), The Zero Hour continues the company’s exploration of the interactions between film (especially cinema), theatre and the construction of narrative. The Zero Hour (or Stunde Null in the original German) was […]

Violence and symmetry are on the cards in Robert Lepage’s highly constructed Spades. It’s the first in a quartet of pieces, and the mind boggles as to how hearts, diamonds or even clubs could follow suit. Spades is set in Las Vegas in 2003. The gambling revolves around not only casinos, but also the invasion […]

As we take our seats in the upstairs theatre of the Oval House we are confronted with a stage laid out with a spiral of large orange dots looking like a relative of the game Twister. In the centre sits an Orville the Duck on a turntable and off to the side is a 1970s […]

Prepare for a dip in the ocean, and a dizzying soar through the air… a dance in the dark, and an eddy of storytelling, music, comedy, shipping forecasts, and animation. This is The Watery Journey of Nereus Pike, presented by Laura Mugridge as ‘a true story that I made up’, with live sound from Tom […]