Meet Pete. He has a shaved head and skinny legs, and he’s dressed in a pair of turquoise-blue shorts and sparkly trainers. Pete has a story to tell – the story of a quest for love. Pete is gay and has a predilection for men with a bit of fat on them. We start with […]

Mixing traditional tales from around the world (including the Native American story of the crow who stole the daylight) into a narrative about the necessary balance between day and night and the value of both, Ripstop Theatre’s beautifully titled Luminous Tales is billed as a ‘gentle journey through the darkness of night, over the light of the […]

With its cinematic opening credits and references to film noir, it soon becomes obvious that Hotel Methuselah draws as much from the history of cinema as it does the traditions of theatre. And with its innovative use of projection, such referencing has obviously been put to good use. The live element of the performance is viewed through […]

Clout are a new young company of Lecoq graduates who have created a memorable production that engagingly epitomises some of the methods the school has made popular. We follow the unfortunate story of the hapless and endearing James Flynch, a young man unceremoniously dumped in the opening minutes of the show for being ‘ridiculous’ and […]

4.3 Miles from Nowhere is a collaboration between a group of four theatre-makers and a five-strong folk band. The company wish to explore ways these forms can work together to produce work with a festival audience in mind. This, their second show, sets up a somewhat literal approach to throwing the two forms together by having […]