In which Chris Goode comes of age, taking words out of the mouth of babes and onto the stage of the Trav… Monkey Bars is a piece of verbatim theatre, with texts taken from interviews with children between the ages of six and eleven (conducted by Goode’s collaborator Karl James – mediator, facilitator, and director, known […]

The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley, Chris Goode and Company, Battersea Arts Centre, December 2nd 2011 Wound Man is a modern-day superhero. Not too 1970s, although he does land in a suburban neighbourhood in a silver thong. Instead, he mumbles about ‘consultancy’, ‘community’, ‘sustainable engagement’, ‘empowering other people’ – that sort of thing. Gently […]