What a glorious 75 minutes of dance theatre Gala is. I don’t remember the last time that a live performance has made me grin like a Cheshire cat and burst into smiling tears… It’s remarkable. French dance artist Jérôme Bel has gathered together 20 performers of varying ages and abilities – some professional dancers, some […]

Building on two scratch performances held at Battersea Arts Centre in 2015, writer and performer Femi Martin returns for three nights with her one-woman show, How To Die of a Broken Heart. Martin takes her intimate audience through a series of relationships and health scares as she discovers the strange, corruptive and accommodating behaviours of […]

A collaboration between writer/director Tassos Stevens (of Coney fame) and composer/sound designer Nick Ryan, Fortune combines Stevens’ storytelling with Ryan’s evocative soundscape. An ever-changing atmosphere surrounds Stevens as he tells his stories, from storms erupting at sea to chiming bells – and the audience is invited to consider chance, fortune and serendipity, with some fun […]

Me and my muse: in preparation for the premiere of his new piece, Shoot the Sissy, Nando Messias reflects on the nature of the creative process ‘In show business,’ says Honey Whitlock, ‘we say Break a Leg. NEVER fucking Good Luck!’ She’s a character in John Walter’s marvellous film Cecil B. Demented, and she speaks […]

A long table covered with a cloth. A banquet? Perhaps we are in Olympia and this is a feast for the gods. Or the goddesses. A candelabra. Perhaps we are in a castle. We could be in heaven, or perhaps purgatory. Hell, even – there’s a lot of smoke. We could be anywhere mythical. Anywhere […]