In their latest offering, Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare, Forced Entertainment continue to explore their fascination with storytelling, presented here in its purest form. It’s no mean feat: 36 plays over six days, shared between six performers. Forced Entertainment are no strangers to this sort of durational experiment – those familiar with their work will […]

Two robust, muscular, black men compete on a Nintendo Wii as the audience trickle in, feeling like voyeurs entering someone else’s home. Performers Soloman Israel and Samuel Nicholas inhabit a comfortable and homely set, designed on an axis, cleverly incorporating two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a kitchen. The partitions come to a point at centre […]

Penny Francis experiences a total theatre delight at Vélo Théatre’s Greli Grelo festival in France  The decision to go surprised everyone, not least myself. The beginning of February had brought a small brochure of a small festival to be staged at the end of the month in a small French town I’d never heard of named […]

Rhiannon Faith’s Scary Shit is a collaboration with Maddy Morgan and psychotherapist Joy Griffiths. Faith and Morgan’s performance draws on autobiographical subject matter that emerged during therapy sessions as part of the creative process. The duo uncover a darker side of womanhood that is rarely thrown into light with such disarming honesty, facilitated by their […]

Across the Barbican’s vast stage – right across, east to west – is a wall. It could be anywhere: Berlin pre-1989; the West Bank, anytime over the past 30 years. It could be now: Bulgaria, Macedonia, Hungary; the entrance to the  Channel Tunnel at Calais. It’s perhaps 3 or 4 metres high, a mottled rusty-grey […]