We are here trying to find a translation. Are you listening? Do you understand? How are you doing? Are you assimilating, processing, interpreting? Perhaps you’re looking, reading the body language of the two women sitting side-by-side, joined at the hip by the voluptuous folds of dresses that billow over their chairs and on to the floor. One is […]

Grace Savage is many things: person, woman, performer, actor, beatboxer. Repeat British Champion Beatboxer to be precise. She is the sum of her parts and so is her one-woman theatrical debut Blind, created with female-led devising company The Paper Birds, and originally premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe 2014. This is a mostly-autobiographical collection of re-enacted […]

Bring down the borders! Bring them down! Prime Minister of the Whole World (Amy Lame, our DJ for the evening) has given the word, so down they will come. But for now, it’s time to dance: a great big melting pot of human beings, all nationalities and ethnicities, all genders, and all sexual orientations merging, […]

It’s a one-woman production, but the performance is all women. In fact Katherine Vince is the prototypical everywoman as she takes on numerous roles in her realisation of Claire Stone’s perceptive play. Interacting with multimedia and striding unabashed through the fourth wall at will, she lays bare the fallacy of conventional standards of female beauty, […]

More of an installation than a narrative work, or even a collection of set pieces, My Name is B demonstrates the cyclical and entropic artifice of celebrity, and the destructive fallacy of living as a Persona at the expense of Self. The 53-minute performance (we are told the running time repeatedly in the rhythmic opening […]