Opening during the Olympic Games, Home:scape, a collaboration between the Czech-based ensemble Teatr Novogo Fronta and one of the UK’s most quietly adventurous venues, appears to counter that global festival of homogenising cultural activity (sport) by bringing together diverse and plural reflections on the nature of home and transitions. Drawing from a wide range of interviews […]

Do you believe in free will? Yes, you answer. Well, did you choose to be born? No, you answer. So, given that this first moment of your life was determined by someone or something other than you, something other than your ‘free will’, and given that every moment from then until now has been a […]

We climb a forbidding flight of stone stairs and reach a high-ceilinged panelled room (this in the C Nova venue, the latest pop-up theatre space in the C Venues empire, housed in a government building). Almost the whole room is taken up by a large rusty-looking box, a kind of shipping container with peepholes. Peering […]

Yellow raincoats, oversize glasses, woolly hats and torches… do they sound a familiar bunch? Ah, but you didn’t know that Gherkin, Flora and Brian come to collect people before they die. Like the hapless 30 year-old David (Viktor Lukawski), who spends some of the show on a vertical deathbed. At its best, Death and Gardening by Wet […]

Take three girls – Bea, Anne and Sylvia are their names. Sylvia is the sensible one, a bit older than her years, dressed in clothes her companions describe as matronly (although they don’t really read in this way). Anne is the good-time girl, sitting around at home in a red halter-neck dress, full make-up and […]