How surreal have your job interviews been? Would Be Nice Though… – a piece from artists Holly Bodmer and Dot Howard, who together make up Odd Comic – places you in the moments leading up to a job interview that will never materialise. You are the interviewees, the hopeful few who have arrived to vie for a […]

The cards are drawn, and what will happen will happen. As we enter the space – a big old church with a grand high ceiling, shadows cast on rough brick walls – two men, dressed in great frock-coats and tall hats, are sat upstage behind painted lecterns, turning over playing cards and throwing them to […]

Take a seat and take on a character; it’s 1983, and you’re here to recreate a murder. Comedian Joe Pops was shot dead at the end of a disastrous set and now you’re recreating a five-minute time loop leading up to his death. This novel piece splits the audience in two with some members sitting […]

‘You forget that all the feelings of the world, the rains, the sounds, the cities, the birds, the people, and everything… is you,’ says Derevo’s announcement of their inspirational new ensemble work, Mephisto Waltz. Know that we are intrinsically part of everything, and that everything – good or bad – is part of us, is the […]

As part of the Meltdown series at the Southbank Centre curated by Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons), this was an evening dedicated to butoh legend Kazuo Ohno, who died, at the age of 103, in 2010. Along with Tatsumi Hijikata, Ohno is credited with developing the Japanese dance form of butoh. In A Celebration of […]