This interactive solo piece from Iraqi-Belgian theatre maker Enkidu Khaled is part lecture, part workshop, part direct audience address, but always complex and often fascinating. At its core, it seeks to address the universal age-old question ‘can art save the world?’ This is lent extra weight by the production’s context, for as the show progresses […]

Dorothy Max Prior encounters the force that is Liz Aggiss, whose show Slap and Tickle comes to the Edinburgh Fringe 2017 as part of the British Council Showcase. ‘I stage a revolt against the mundane and banal through the re-appropriation of glamour and beauty. I am a one-woman operation; performing, directing myself, writing texts, sorting […]

A magical merging of choreography and film-making, puppetry of every persuasion, Beckettian clowns, the body as manipulated object, and circus shows that deconstruct and re-asssemble the traditional skills into new forms:  this and more was seen at the London International Mime Festival by Total Theatre’s team of writers. Dorothy Max Prior reports on shows seen […]

Italian company Dewey Dell collaborates with Japanese director Kuro Tanino and visual artist Yuichi Yokoyama to create Marzo referring both to the month of March, and the god of war that month is named after. Marzo sets its audience up for a mighty and surreal work. Upon entering the Barbican Pit, we are handed ear […]

Previous work by Yngvild Aspeli, director of Ashes, includes a series of shows by UK-based company Jammy Voo, in most of which (among other things) she performed a different scene where she got into a generally-fatal battle with her own puppet. In a sense, Ashes is these theatrical moments of struggle writ large. The protagonist […]