The number of straight young men encouraged into ballet schools might plummet after two and half hours of brazen campery in Matthew Bourne’s triple bill. Presented to celebrate his company’s 25th anniversary, it is a timely selection for a year of Jubilee and Olympic festivities, a lighthearted, nostalgia-ladened programme of exquisitely performed classical ballet with […]

Presented under the auspices of ‘east. by. south. east’, a collaboration between key venues in those two regions, Made in China’s We Hope That You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?) is a strange beast, in the best sort of way – an interesting mix of new writing and physically embodied, really there, live art performance. It took me […]

Two dancers, a strand of light behind them, an intense white strand of light, cutting across the rear wall – in response to the dancers, or is it that the dancers are responding to the light? This mesmerising brilliant strand is superseded by lines of light streaming down, vertically, contrasted by horizontal lines projected onto […]

A full house, quiet, a twilit lull, then into the dark and the sound of an electronic signal, coming in, cutting out; difficult to hear dialogue. I could make out some words: that of an astronaut, an astronaut in the dark, the voice of Neil Armstrong in the dark, in communication with NASA. Beep beep! […]

There are several pairings in Black T-shirt Collection, the third work by Nigerian-born Inua Ellams, who has enjoyed a swift ride to becoming a playwright of national status since his first production in 2009. First, there is black and white, the colours that define the set. There are black blocks, a white cardboard box, a mono […]