By the end of Mega, I am dancing in the rain with a stranger to the persuasive beat of MC Hammer that no one apart from us can hear. Passers-by pause in the driving Ipswich rain to take photos of us on their phones. I am a self-conscious audience member, and this is an unlikely outcome, […]

As a Lancashire girl myself, I have loads of reasons to take umbrage about Tom Wainwright’s second one-man show, a character-based monologue focused on a self-proclaimed ‘fat cow’ from my home county. Wainwright follows up his 2010 Edinburgh smash hit, Pedestrian, with Buttercup: ‘a fick, a fat and an ugly’ whose ignorance and credulity have made […]

How can you describe Goose Party? They are a band searching for their identity. Not because they don’t have one, but rather, they have too many. During the course of the evening we cycle through country and prog folk, New Romantic, Glam Rock and disco. And that’s just the (fabulous and mad) costumes! The music […]

Tom Marshman’s new show is at its best when it poignantly draws our gaze downwards to examine the plight and power of our oft-disregarded pins. ’36 inches of blood, bone and muscle’, in his case, jauntily showcased in some frankly fabulous sparkly, star encrusted tights as the lights rise on his lanky frame. This is […]

It’s a bright idea to draw together the range of work inspired by the current vogue for intimate performance into a day-long menu that audiences can skip between. Many venues have tried it, but none with quite the atmospheric verve of Laura Mugridge and Tom Frankland’s Campsite. Here audiences can choose between a selection of […]