Paid Fantasist is the first collaboration between Rebecca Biscuit and Nick Field. Biscuit is half of the multi-award-winning Sh!t Theatre; Field a celebrated performer, writer and artist. Their show is inspired by an interview with Tom Baker in 1978 in The Times when at the height of his Dr. Who fame, in which he describes a […]

It’s hopefully au revoir not adieu…  Ciaran Hammond reflects on the Voila Europe festival Now in its 7th year Voila Europe! is an annual theatre festival focusing on cross-border European work, which showcases work featuring a variety of different practices. Originally established with a focus on French-English bilingual performance, last year (2017) the festival expanded […]

Dorothy Max Prior sees vessel, the new production by Total Theatre Award winner Sue MacLaine, and talks to the writer about the personal and the political, about power and  privilege – and about whose voices get heard and whose silenced Let’s talk about what defines my reality Four women, each sat on a chair, each […]

Kneehigh have an illustrious history in the vibrant adaptation of fairy tales (from The Red Shoes to Rapunzel and beyond) and so Jim Dodge’s much-loved first novel, Fup – often graced with the suffix ‘a modern fable’ – is a choice that resonates with their back catalogue. The short novel, published in 1983, has achieved […]

‘Finally an artform where you can fly, just like in your dreams.’ – Laurie Anderson.  Dorothy Max Prior and Aislinn Kelly journey through Laurie Anderson & Hsin-Chien Huang’s virtual reality installation Chalkroom Do oceans have walls? I’m flying, on ‘slow fly’. If this is slow, how fast might ‘fast’ be? I haven’t come across an ocean […]