Gob Squad is collective of UK and German artists who juxtapose fixed-form performance with the improvised and unpredictable. Typically their work can be found outside of a traditional theatre, exploring the corners of contemporary life, seeking absurdity and spectacle as they capture moments of exquisite humanity in our decaying urban existence. Tonight, we are in […]

Hidden under the chaos of the living moment… Thomas Bacon on Bobby Baker’s Mad Gyms and Kitchens Entering the space of Bobby Baker is a disarming experience. The audience are onstage at the ICIA; fluorescent striplights domestically illuminate the space. There are no gels, Gobos or carefully positioned Parcans here: the theatricality is stripped away and […]

Placing Dan Canham and Augusto Corrieri’s work together on one bill was evidence of a canny bit of curating by The Nightingale’s Steve Brett: both artists are young men trained in contemporary dance who create performance works that sit somewhere within the dance, theatre and live art triangle – clever, entertaining and curious (in all […]

Trestle Theatre has been producing physical theatre work for twenty years, famed for their use of masks. Over the past five years they have launched Trestle Unmasked, in which they have uncovered their performers faces and embraced a collaborative ethos of theatrical storytelling. The Man with the Luggage is the result of a collaboration between director […]

Combining well-paced physical humour with accomplished live musical performance, Mr Honk and His Sad Trombone is an entertaining show, perfectly pitched at its audience of young children and accompanying adults. Mr Honk, a quirky character who enjoys a challenge, is desperate to join his local brass band, but the grumpy trombone that he purchases from a disreputable-looking […]