This powerful, affecting work interrogates the boundaries between man and machine through exploring Alan Turing’s life, achievements and eventual persecution based on his homosexuality. Best known for his instrumental role in cracking the German’s Enigma cipher during his time at Bletchley Park in World War 2, fiercely intelligent Turing also taught at Cambridge and developed […]

The room – part stage-set, part immersive installation – seems primed for a hoe-down, or a good long yarn-spinning session around a campfire. The air is pungent with mint and woodchips. An intimate space has been cleared in the forest, and live music softly welcomes us into the moment. Then the story begins, and with […]

Once upon a long ago in the faded ochre of a 1970s childhood I sat in the stalls of Edinburgh’s venerable Kings Theatre and saw my first instance of real magic – nothing to do with rabbits, or top hats, or cards, but the specific kind of magic that can only happen in a theatre. You […]

I love masks. They are among our most strange contrivances, and such a mystery for something so commonplace. In Greek tragedy the chorus masks were worn not merely as costume elements, but as resonance chambers for the ritual cries of the chorus. Their consequent mental transportation into the darkest inner realms were, effectively, masked from […]

Entering the dim space, there appear to be two sculptural forms. To one side, towards the rear, is a tall metal stepladder, the top end of its steps disappearing into a kind of open-ended cocoon. To the other side, towards the front, is what seems to be a hulking rusting statue. The statue is lit […]