Slideshow is Laurie Anderson on speed. I’ve seen her many times before. I’ve seen the mostly music shows, and I’ve seen the mostly storytelling with some music shows. But this is something else. Laurie starts, as is her wont, by walking on with her customised electric violin and playing. But on this occasion, it is […]

2016 seems to be the year when binaural technology really starts to find creative traction in theatre making. The Last Resort is the third show this month I’ve experienced that plays with the possibilities offered by its spatial reconstitution of soundscape, so that sound appears to materialise in specific physical relationship to your head: shooting […]

Hello Darling One, My name is Selina Thompson, I’m 26, an artist based between Leeds and Birmingham. I make performance about – I’m finding that sentence increasingly hard to finish. And I think it is because I am changing quite a bit. On 12 February, I got on a cargo ship, and sailed from Antwerp […]

As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, and as flies they are struck down, one by one. The Richards and the Henries. Antony. Cleopatra. Romeo. Juliet. Lear. Macbeth. Hamlet. And the lesser people, them too. All of them. 23 stabbings, 12 sword fights, 5 poisonings, 12 suicides, 2 throats cut, 1 smothering, […]

The Lamellar Project have saved the world. Their genetic reconstructions of species subject to mysterious and ecologically catastrophic mass extinctions have rejuvenated failing food webs. Who’s to begrudge them the odd tweak here and there – to improve nature’s pattern where such improvements can now be identified? Yet of course, with modification comes commodification: ownership. […]