Visual theatre, you say? Here it is in shed-loads: the awesome Opus 7 – created by Russian designer-director Dmitry Krymov and a team of performer-devisers and co-designers – is truly epic, and takes up every inch of the Brighton Corn Exchange with cardboard, paint, a football game, a giant puppet (she’d be ceiling height in most venues, […]

‘No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That’s all.’ Three young people negotiate the urban environment. A man in a red hoodie rolls across the ground (‘Like the rolling saint of India!’ says my companion). A woman with strawberry-blonde plaits scales the wall […]

At its best the work of Hofesh Shechter, director of this year’s Brighton Festival, can feel almost shamanistic – an overwhelming spectacle of pounding sounds, visceral movement and visuals. When I saw 2012’s Political Mother as part of last year’s Derry City of Culture programme, the arena was set up for a gig and hundreds […]

Tim Crouch’s plays effortlessly combine compelling character drama with an interrogation of political and theatrical ideas that is exhilarating. In this performance, a collaboration and two hander with Andy Smith, that he professes in the programme has been on his wish list since writing his play An Oak Tree (2006), the subject is connection or […]