This first foray by Jess Thom into performance making scooped the 2014 Total Theatre Emerging Artist award at this summer’s Edinburgh Fringe. The show develops from her successful work in blogging and publishing that has made her alter ego, Touretteshero, a much loved spokesperson for the illness. And it’s an illness that, despite its fascinating […]

iPhone users and ‘Other’ phone users are separated upon entry into the ever enchanting Spiegeltent that has been packing them in on London’s Southbank all summer. Head-to-toe in gold sequins, Miss Behave charmingly barks orders at us, gently ribbing everyone and getting us in the mood for the conflict ahead. Gameshow is an anarchic delight, […]

Since moving out of the Arches at London Bridge to make way for the Shard, the performance collective Shunt have continued making large scale-works in different found spaces, often playing with immersing the audience into a series of environments. With The Boy Who Climbed Out of His Face though, they have less taken over a […]

Two men are sitting down with a large painting of what could be an aerial view of a battleground on their laps. All you can see of them is their legs and all you can hear is a rendition of It’s a Long Way to Tipperary. Due to an itchy foot the song stalls on […]

What could affect and transform a performance? I wouldn’t usually start a critique with a question – after all, it places the reader in an uncomfortable situation where, rather than passively contemplate what the critic has to say, she or he is required to have an opinion, or at least think about it. But in […]