Quick quiz! One question. Imagine the world is run by children. Utopia or dystopia? It’s a juicy early summer twilight and on the grass in Mile End, by the pub used as a landmark, clusters of adult humans mill about exchanging masks of pleasant expectation, as though preemptively bemused, being more furtive than usual with […]
Writings
Hofesh Shechter: East Wall
July 26th, 2018 by Ciaran HammondSitting in the west moat of the Tower of London, members of an orchestra are preparing their instruments. Gongs, electric guitars and cellos rest beneath defensive stone walls. Nine vocalists deliver an acapella rendition of Bowie’s Ashes to Ashes, the last note of which is sustained. As it turns into a drone, bearskins emerge from further down the […]
I’ll Be Your Mirror
July 10th, 2018 by Dorothy Max PriorBeauty, Morality, Ageing, Power… Theatre elder Dorothy Max Prior, young reporter/performer Ciaran Hammond, and – placed somewhere between those two – artist and writer Zoe Czavda Redo offer a three-way reflection on Gob Squad’s Creation (Pictures for Dorian) ‘It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.’ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Dorothy Max […]
Neil Bartlett / Jean-René Lemoine: Medea (Written in Rage)
June 10th, 2018 by Zoe Czavda RedoOutside the theatre, there’s a drizzle and the sky is fluorescent grey. Inside, a much larger storm seems to be brewing: wind howls by the regal gold balconies, the sound of heavy rain slapping and splashing on decks is so convincing I look around in fear for the seats – their aged red velvet already fragile. […]
Lume Teatro and Karavan Ensemble: Pupik
June 8th, 2018 by Zoe Czavda RedoA woman in a skirt-suit and glossy dark hair hurries through a corridor, trailing a suitcase. Another one, identically dressed, mirror image or fellow flight attendant, crosses opposite, also with suitcase. They traverse the back strip of a bare stage, exposed by opened black curtains. A third woman (or is it the first?) comes from […]