The five dancers and one musician that form Les Slovaks are on stage as the audience settles, smiling out at us. They begin with a folk song, in perfect harmony. So far, so Slovakian. Then something happens. The dancers move upstage into a square of light, they huddle in the corner, and one by one break […]

Ageing and dementia is one of the go-to topics for today’s theatre makers. Tomorrow, conceived and directed by Matthew Lenton in collaboration with a company of actors and designers, is a highly visual and emotive response. Over seventy minutes, we see lives transformed, moments remembered and lost, the everyday rubbed up against the mystical. In the […]

We take our seats in the theatre and there on stage, behind a table with his laptop, is Brian Lobel. Above and behind him is a projection screen. Large white seconds count down one minute. Three years ago, during 50 maniacal hours spanned over five days, he played a brutal game of Facebook friendship maintenance, […]

Zoo is the company of Swiss choreographer, dancer and performance maker Thomas Hauert, here in collaboration with four other European artists. Enhanced Dance to Disguised Music is a highly conceptual piece for the over-fives, matching the playful disjunction of John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (1946-8) with a dancer similarly encumbered by a changing […]

The sun is bright above us as I sit on the grass in Stanmer Park waiting for Walking Stories to begin. We are handed headphones and gathered together as group. There is advice about trusting your instincts, and reassurances that, as you strike out into the open spaces, you will be looked after and you […]