‘I am Natalie and I like to do handstands. When I do a handstand  I feel strong and straight as a rocket. When I do handstands people notice me.’ This is a show that features Natalie Reckert doing an endless number of handstands and hand-balances on canes, and is almost exclusively about Natalie doing handstands […]

A phone rings; a warning to turn off our mobiles. Lights. Low, moody lights. Three bodies – two male and one female, in minimal sporty underwear; fit and honed bodies – are curled up on the floor. There is some flexing and contorting of their back and shoulder muscles, a bit of writhing and twitching. […]

It’s 10pm at Underbelly’s Circus Hub, and the audience are primed for a sassy show after huddling together in the windy outside bar, before filing into the sold-out big top. Head First Acrobats – Thomas Gorham, Cal Harris and Rowan Thomas – provide just what is needed as they bamboozle viewers with a show tightly […]

A plain and unadorned space, a circle drawn on the ground, a light, a chair. And a body. A human body. A bag of bones. The body belongs to Thomas Monkton, seen previously at the Edinburgh Fringe and the London International Mime Festival with The Pianist. But Only Bones is a very different kettle of […]

High up in the space, curled up around a rope, is a body, and as the show starts, the body descends, falls with a thud. A confused young woman in a smart black trouser suit and red shirt looks out to us. I remember, she says… I remember… She remembers crossing the road, her mobile […]