Jamie Wood’s comedic tribute to the work of Yoko Ono re-enacts a series of her most famous ‘pieces’, interspersed with his reflections on romantic love expressed through his own odd, poetic happenings. From the outset he exudes an air of playful generosity, staring deeply into one person’s eyes and telling them, ‘I love how thoughtful […]

If you do go along to see this show during the fringe, be sure to get there early and grab a front row seat. On my visit, the show virtually sold out and I found myself sat on the back row with a distinctly obscured view; and this with only three rows of seats in […]

Ah, the lure of the silver screen! Close Up starts with slow motion, Black and white film of diving and tumbling bodies, enormous limbs and torsos travelling across the large screen to the rear of the performance space, which is set up dance-style at floor level – no staging, tiered seats rising up on three […]

This show certainly does feature some big marionettes: a virtually life-sized Giraffe, an Elephant, and a Lion. The Elephant is actually slightly under life-size and the Lion slightly over, which caused me some inclination to quibble, but they are big and impressive nonetheless. Indeed, the whole visual aspect of the show is well conceived with […]

The politics of gender – and specifically transgender issues – are a hot potato right now. There’s a lot of media attention on high-profile transgender women – Caitlyn, Kellie – with endless interviews, articles, speculations and pronouncements from the women themselves and from their family, friends and enemies. Meanwhile, within the tight enclaves of radical […]