There is an interesting cultural dynamic that has arisen in recent years, in tandem with the emergence of affordable technologies and the ever-spreading rash of creative hybridisation of form, media, medium and delivery. This dynamic concerns sound systems, and is something that I became aware of a couple of years ago when a theatre director […]

The warm and immediately interactive nature of this production cannot but fail to engage its audience, who excitedly take up the challenge of forming their own mini protestor’s figure in Plasticine to add to the rest on stage before the action begins. As such, we are part of the performance from the off, which is […]

Badac have taken over a basement corridor in Summerhall which is painted entirely in white for their dramatisation of the story of campaigning Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. We are transported underground in a rickety lift and ushered to stand against the wall by Marnie Baxter, who plays our eponymous heroine. What ensues is sixty-five minutes […]

Jamie Wood is in the lotus position wrapped in green towels, with a cuddly toy tiger on his head. He throws tennis balls into the audience as he belts out calming Buddhist-like chants, calming his nerves. ‘All will be fine’ he tells us as he asks us to breathe with him and eventually sing with […]

Junction 25 is a young people’s performance company that puts young people’s voices firmly into the centre of contemporary performance. For their 2013 Edinburgh show, they’ve created a piece of interactive work which sits close to my heart having made a piece about a very similar subject matter: success, failure and how we are set […]