Four women want to reach the sublime and they’ll try anything to get there: happy-clappy songs, fractured didactic arguments, and chair balancing. Theirs is both a philosophical journey, taking in Burke and Nietzsche, and a theatrical one, involving every possible performance style and form in its exhaustive quest for the mountain top. They puncture the […]

A bourgeois rollercoaster of classical criticism, existentialist musing, and liberal destruction of the past, speckled with interjections of the true life of acting, money, and debt – what good is a Chekhov play nowadays? In Ireland, to be more specific? Who are these nobodies moaning about their mansions? Chekhov was a key exponent of naturalist […]

The room is a small cinema. It has rows of light blue chairs. The rows are long and the fabric is velvety. On the chairs are black blindfolds. Behind the chairs are long black tubes with black cones sticking out of either side. The adults sit on the rows leaving one empty row behind them. […]

An Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotsman: it’s a good premise, one we’re all familiar with, and certainly holds the potential for not only a good dose of laughs, but also a puerile potential for political undertones.  The Joke, presented by Will Adamsdale and Fuel Theatre at Camden People’s Theatre, sets itself up in exactly […]

This unusual production pairs one adult audience member with a primary-school-aged child from the city, and has been created by Andy Field in collaboration with the students and staff of Sefton Park Junior School. I no longer live in Bristol and this visit was one of the few times I’ve ever been left feeling nostalgic […]