So here is Peaseblossom: cheeky, chirpy, distributing flowers amongst the audience with a wink and a smile. The purple one is very special, she confides to the young woman sitting next to me in the front row. Take it – but when I ask, you’ll give it back to me, won’t you? She’s coming! says […]

Today we’ve had squally showers and sunny spells. And wind, it’s very windy. Welcome to Scotland in the summer! Walking around Edinburgh a few days before the Fringe kicks in is always an odd experience – witnessing Brigadoon rising from the mists and assembling itself. This year, everything seems to be happening a little late. […]

We are here trying to find a translation. Are you listening? Do you understand? How are you doing? Are you assimilating, processing, interpreting? Perhaps you’re looking, reading the body language of the two women sitting side-by-side, joined at the hip by the voluptuous folds of dresses that billow over their chairs and on to the floor. One is […]

It’s a one-woman production, but the performance is all women. In fact Katherine Vince is the prototypical everywoman as she takes on numerous roles in her realisation of Claire Stone’s perceptive play. Interacting with multimedia and striding unabashed through the fourth wall at will, she lays bare the fallacy of conventional standards of female beauty, […]

A reflection on What Will Have Been, the latest work by Circa to be developed in collaboration with Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and a meeting with the company’s director Yaron Lifschitz The Adnams Spiegeltent, in the last week of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival: word is out, and the tent is full. Circa are perennial […]