Take a seat and take on a character; it’s 1983, and you’re here to recreate a murder. Comedian Joe Pops was shot dead at the end of a disastrous set and now you’re recreating a five-minute time loop leading up to his death. This novel piece splits the audience in two with some members sitting […]

‘You forget that all the feelings of the world, the rains, the sounds, the cities, the birds, the people, and everything… is you,’ says Derevo’s announcement of their inspirational new ensemble work, Mephisto Waltz. Know that we are intrinsically part of everything, and that everything – good or bad – is part of us, is the […]

Do you believe in free will? Yes, you answer. Well, did you choose to be born? No, you answer. So, given that this first moment of your life was determined by someone or something other than you, something other than your ‘free will’, and given that every moment from then until now has been a […]

We climb a forbidding flight of stone stairs and reach a high-ceilinged panelled room (this in the C Nova venue, the latest pop-up theatre space in the C Venues empire, housed in a government building). Almost the whole room is taken up by a large rusty-looking box, a kind of shipping container with peepholes. Peering […]

Take three girls – Bea, Anne and Sylvia are their names. Sylvia is the sensible one, a bit older than her years, dressed in clothes her companions describe as matronly (although they don’t really read in this way). Anne is the good-time girl, sitting around at home in a red halter-neck dress, full make-up and […]