Tag Archives: Brighton Fringe

Enter the Dragons – and Divas, and Dancing Girls

June 18th, 2017 by

If I see another article or blog about the dearth of women theatre writers and directors, I warn you I will scream. Scream and shout in a hissy fit, and stamp my feet. Why? Because people are looking at things the wrong way up. They’re looking but not seeing. Whilst wringing their hands about it […]

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Street, Park, Wood, Water – Sites and Sights

June 1st, 2017 by

‘So what’s the difference between site-specific and site-responsive?’ asks a colleague, as we wait on the platform of the eastbound Jubilee Line at London Bridge station. Deep breath. I say straight away that I try not to be too pedantic. I know that most people just say ‘site specific’ for all work outside of theatre […]

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Not Easy Company: Losing It

June 11th, 2014 by

The publicity says ‘Everyone experiences loss every day from the small things to the deeper losses, whether it’s losing your keys or forgetting something…’ Up on the stage, a big jumble sale like heap of clothes lies on a table. A couple of dour looking clowns attire themselves from the mismatched forsaken garments. A red […]

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Darren Purnell & Tuffbroads: La Bouche in Watch My Lips & Baby Lame

June 6th, 2014 by

Entering the small black box stage of the Marlborough Theatre the audience encounters a drag artist, standing on a plinth, singing Gloria Gaynor’s I will Survive with his back turned to the audience. Then, as he undresses, we see a man wearing a black vest and underpants. His face is covered with white cloth that […]

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Vamos Theatre: Finding Joy

June 6th, 2014 by

Vamos is a young company working with an old craft, using full-mask performers, reminiscent of Trestle or Famile Flöz.  In Finding Joy four of them deliver an array of non-speaking characters to tell the story of an elderly woman in the early stages of dementia, the frustrations of both her home life and her grim […]

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