Drawn from their own lives the participants in this pop-up choir give vent to the things they envy set to a score by Verity Standen and including excerpts from a speech praising the necessity of envy in a capitalist economy by a man called Boris Johnson who was elected Mayor of London. The lyrics are […]

The ability to see patterns is the ability to create a story: a narrative, however simple, explaining the world we witness. Sometimes this ability turns against us and we see patterns where there are none, sometimes, as in this show, we can overwrite old stories with new ones; through our imagination we can transform and […]

In the wake of several recent and highly successful biographical films about women performed by high status actors (Streep – Thatcher, Mirren – The Queen and less recently Woolf – Kidman), it is interesting to see Susanna Hislop here working within that genre with her collaborator Anna Ledwich and seeking her own autobiographical story within […]

Reverend Billy creates a church, a congregation, this is true preaching, saying what needs to be said. Finding the words in the moment, so that what might be pastiche in less potent hands is delivered with the full force of conviction, with the urgency of the need to save us from ourselves. Only this is […]

Whichever way you add the numerals of your birth date together they will come to the same thing. You add and add until you reach a single digit. That number is you, you are that number. This is fate, this means something, the day you were born sets you on a path. Thus the laws […]