Presented as part of the Unlimited season at the Southbank Centre, Stumble danceCircus’ 70 minute piece is unusual in that the issue it explores – bipolar disorder – is one of the most ‘invisible’ disabilities in society today. How do you tackle manic depression on a stage? With a non-stop sensory assault of hyperactive […]

Before coming to see David Roche perform, I’d spent a lazy Saturday afternoon watching the Paralympics on television. Nothing too remarkable in that of course, just as in the minutes before the show began there was nothing too unusual in noticing a sign language translator and audio describer (Catholic Erotica is a part of the disability […]

The Bolshy, the Glam and the Outrageous More and more every year, the medium of cabaret is making its bolshy, glam, outrageous presence known at the Edinburgh Fringe. It’s often hard to tell the rough from the smooth, the tart from the tasteful, and audiences are faced with a countless bevy of burlesquers, saucy ironic […]

‘It has taken 48 years for the Edinburgh International to bring us here,’ says Ariane Mnouchkine (founder-director of Theatre du Soleil, legend in her own lifetime) before the show, on this their last performance of a sold-out five-day run. And we can see why: it’s a tall order, bringing this lot over the water. A […]

‘It has taken 48 years for the Edinburgh International to bring us here,’ says Ariane Mnouchkine (founder-director of Theatre du Soleil, legend in her own lifetime) before the show, on this their last performance of a sold-out five-day run. And we can see why: it’s a tall order, bringing this lot over the water. A […]