The small, thrust stage is full of voices. Moving bodies hurry from side to side. Fragments of stories start and stop, overlapping and interrupting. There are a number of reasons this feels exceptional. The cast is unexpectedly large – ten performers plus a musician – who remain with us in the space throughout, sitting on […]

5–4–3–2–1! Con-fused? Be-mused? Don’t be! It’ll be alright on the night… Liz is here – whether to meet and raise expectations or lower the barre we don’t yet know. Will she please us – or will she please herself? We wait with baited breath: ‘Don’t move a muscle!’ Ta-rum! Here she comes! Liz Aggiss IS […]

Fox Symphony is the second full-length show from performance maker Foxy and Husk, whose human identity remains a well-kept secret. Sumptuously dressed in rich brocades, fun-fur and sparkles, with an exquisitely painted foxy face, Foxy and Husk is a performer like no other. Her stage impact is immediate and her skill in the chosen theatrical […]

A man spins round and round: a whirling dervish with one arm raised; a Mensch-Maschine; a clockwork toy. His image is reflected in the Spiegeltent mirrors all around him, so that the lone figure seems to have a ghostly chorus of identical automata. Shadows are cast onto the roof of the tent, another chorus of […]

Each June, the BE (Birmingham European) Festival curates a week of original short performances from around the continent in a format that combines sharing art and food between artists and audiences at the mac theatre. Best of BE FESTIVAL, now touring, comprises three of the best new works from the festival as selected by audiences […]