Any theatre company brave enough to wade into the unknown and take theatre into new and unusual places deserves plenty of credit. French-Canadian collective Le Patin Libre have done just that with The Rule of 3, a visual theatre / dance / ice skating performance that takes place in ice rinks. The company are determined […]

  A popcorn machine, indeed – the popped corn littering the stage, the smell of burnt oil and singed corn filling the room. Not only, but also: a wonky honky-tonk piano, whirring fan wobbling atop, dry ice puffing out from below; a trunk-load of dismembered mannequins, hands and feet and heads juggled and rolled; a […]

In New York City the New Year ushers in a wave of imaginative, thought-provoking and adventurous theatre in the form of Coil Winter Festival. Curated by one of the leading lights of the total theatre experience Stateside, PS122, it is an ambitious, two-week long festival showcasing the work of performance artists, dance companies and boundary […]

Punchdrunk certainly have electrified the Manhattan scene. Since opening Sleep No More in collaboration with Emursive (an elusive production company) in spring 2011, the company has been drawing audiences night after night for a dose of their trademark immersive theatrical experience in which audiences don a white mask and explore sprawling landscapes. This piece is […]

I was never able to decide what I wanted to do more, music or theatre. I had been playing an instrument since I was about 9 years old, and I had played in the sort of band that took defiant pride in doing a good cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit. But I had also […]