Saturday night at Chelsea Theatre, and a hotchpotch of celebrities, students, artists and all sorts form an intimate and supportive audience as David Hoyle dazzles, flaunts and sings us through a satirical romp of queer theatre. Hoyle is joined over the run by different guest performers each night, including graduates of Carnesky’s Finishing School and […]

Acrobat, poet, clown, magician, musician, actor – the talents and skills of James Thierrée seem almost boundless. Inevitable, perhaps, coming as he does from such an impressive line of artists: great-grandfather Eugene O’Neill; another great-grandparent the Music Hall star Lily Harley; grandfather Charlie Chaplin; parents Jean-Baptiste Thierrée and Victoria Chaplin, legendary circus artists. Theatre is […]

Adrian Berry, Artistic Director of Jacksons Lane, reflects (in his own inimitable way) on circus seen at Edinburgh Fringe 2016 Both rich and slim pickings this year – some great work, some brave work. Not quite enough brave work: venues need to get out and explore circus more. But there was much to love in […]

Rebecca Nice meets up with a heroine on a mission to empower women by exposing and facing up to the traumas and distresses they fear most Rhiannon Faith bounds into the bar full of beans, stories and thoughts about both future projects and her current work, Scary Shit. She has just finished bombarding Edinburgh Fringe […]

The programme notes state that the creative process was motivated by the question; ‘is it possible to adapt a novel for the stage and still allow the audience to imagine the characters as if they were reading?’  The answer is a resounding YES, as this very accurately describes my experience of the piece.  The writer, […]