Very occasionally, one will come across a piece of theatre that blows away all preconceptions of what a theatrical experience can be, a performance that occupies a special place in the mind of the observer and becomes a benchmark by which to measure all other experiences, often recalled and never forgotten. Mathurin Bolze and his […]

The man himself meets us at the door with a smile, handshake and a bit of banter. He is the perfect host and good job too, for we are about to step into the stories of his now not-so-invisible-hometown, where the cast of his past become the cast of the present and where we get […]

Spanish flamenco guitars, African koras and kalimbas, and Afro-Venezuelan tambores. Loose-limbed Senegalese dancers, legendary Sevillian singers, verbatim voice-overs about migration, and compás clapping in counter-rhythm to the djembe beats. Quimeras is indeed a strange beast, created by Paco Peña in collaboration with various Spanish, South American, and African dancers and musicians. The core of the […]

A newcomer to Brighton’s range of intimate spaces for intimate theatre, The Dukebox nestles at the back of the Iron Duke pub and is a good setting for Dan R Martin’s text-based two-hander. Billed as a black comedy about manic depression, The Black Dog and Other Influences is a fast-paced exchange of ideas, scenarios and […]

  A backdrop of jarred and splintered wood, set at odd angles across the back wall, and a thin gravel path leading to a gathering of dustbins at the side of the stage evokes the backstreets of Cape Town in the studio of the Oval House Theatre. The lights come up on Mamela Nyamza, who […]