Coming to this sell-out show completely fresh, my prior knowledge was limited to an understanding of Nina Conti as an established performer with considerable popularity, judging both by my research and the packed house of excitedly expectant audience members on the night that I attended. Bar knowing that Conti is an extremely accomplished ventriloquist, having […]

Made in response to the Brazilian floods of recent years,  Sao Paulo based circus/visual/physical theatre company ParaladosanjoS have crafted a disorientating and affecting attempt to capture the material and human cost of ‘natural’ disasters. The harrowing toll includes the floods which the company members experienced personally in their home town of Campinas, Sao Paulo; the floods […]

From the co-creators of the acclaimed puppet-theatre show Cell, In Our Hands is a gentle and almost hypnotic exploration of the issues around Cornish trawler fishing – the isolation, poverty and will to succeed that makes both the occupation and the performance itself one of increasingly high stakes and tension. Smoking Apple’s aim here, as […]

This incredibly accomplished performance merges multi-layered sound effects, music and dialogue in an intensely visceral exploration of humanity being pushed to the absolute limits. Given a set of headphones each, the audience enter to atmospheric and slightly disjointed music, and see five performer-musicians in place on stage. This simple headphone device lends a sense of […]

This offering, part of the Big in Belgium collection of works at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, collides Macbeth with the relationship between grunge superstar Kurt Cobain and his wife Courtney Love-Cobain, deconstructing the lives that these two sets of tragic figures play(ed) out. Taking the rough form of a triptych the piece lurches between three […]