Three teenagers casually address the audience. They have something to tell us, something they have no words for. One asks what we want to know about, and if it’s possible to come close to someone else’s experience. Can we ever really understand? Can we remember what it’s like to be a child? A high frequency […]

Ex-country and western singer turned lesbian performance artist, Tammy WhyNot is the alter ego of veteran performance artist Lois Weaver, who has been making projects that explore direct experiences of social issues for the past six years. This bouffant-wigged, kitten-heeled persona is outrageous enough, yet identifiable enough, to invite confidences. As Tammy, Weaver collaborates and […]

Birdy takes no prisoners, right from the opening shots. A low-lit stage. A drone. The sounds of war. Specifically, the sounds of 20th century-style war – buzzing plane engines, Hurricanes and Spitfires, lobbed grenades – mixing with the universal and eternal sounds of war: the shouts and cries of confused voices, the groans and gasps […]

Closely linked to the festival’s Storm theme, this highly experimental production (full title: (M)imosa / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning) highlights the value in turmoil, whipping up a mind-blowing hurricane of images and ideas. Presented as part of a trilogy running throughout Bristol’s In Between Time festival, (M)imosa is a complex and provocative international choreographic collaboration […]

Artificial mist envelopes Bristol’s Pero’s bridge, obscuring everything. In a moment I am lost. Uncertainty and possibility abound: perhaps when this fog clears I’ll find myself in another place – perhaps this is all there is, an endless intangible landscape. Fujiko Nakaya’s Fog Bridge, which receives its UK premiere here, is a sublime piece of […]