‘OK my darling, up you pop… down you pop… just pop your arms up and I’ll pop this nightie off… A cup of tea? A biscuit? A bourbon, a custard cream, a digestive? OK, botty on potty… Oh, careful my darling, you don’t want to fall down again like Humpty Dumpty, do you?’ Guilia Innocenti […]

No, not that Windsor House. This one is on an estate in the not-so-Green Lanes area of North London – fag end of Finsbury Park to you and me, guv. And here we are! On-screen, we see the glorious exterior of the block of council flats, and the wasteland around it, with an estate agent […]

Holly is 27, she is 5 ft 7in. Veronica is 26, she is 5 ft 5in. Not giants by any definition, but thankfully not snakes either. Radiating openness and brimming with warmth, Holly tells us she will be telling the tale of an older lady, Shenna, and Veronica, that of a younger one, Ali. Both […]

Sirques Alfon channel the spirit of Mr Motivator – in a disco, with lasers, trapped in a computer game. On speed. A gloriously manic and resolutely bizarre celebration of life and individuality, I am Somebody is vastly entertaining and hugely engaging: a party that you don’t want to end and which you’re very happy to […]

Three women gather. They sing in close harmony, shifting and sliding cadences of beauty. Their voices are female, they are female – it goes without saying. Such certainty is positively waiting to be challenged, and it is the very saying of it that it is in question: living, as we are, as part of ‘mankind’ […]