There is nothing more satisfying in theatre than a number of recognisable traditions filtering through and cohering into a completely fresh and new artistic sensibility. Discernible influences on the young company Barrel Organ include Forced Entertainment, Sarah Kane and possibly some representatives of the current trend of interactive theatre pioneered by the likes of Tim […]

Secret Theatre – the Lyric Hammersmith’s ensemble project – has gone from strength to strength since its launch in the autumn 2013. They have recently received additional funding which will enable them to continue and in the meantime they have also made it to Edinburgh, with not one, but two shows. The other is a new play by […]

The Pulitzer prize-winning poet Anne Sexton was abused by her father, unloved by her mother and sexually exploited by her therapist, all of which probably contributed to her depression and ultimate suicide in 1974. This we learn through the unsettling work God Is In My Typewriter. Grim stuff. Performer Anna Mari Laulumaa from Finland presents […]

Invisible Walls, performed by Kosovan company Teatri ODA, is an affecting piece of physical theatre resembling an applied form of theatre-in-education that was particularly prevalent in the eighties and early nineties. It is performed outside, and the Soviet-style towering buildings which make up the Summerhall courtyard space act as walls around the audience at the […]

Twelve strangers stand in an empty room right in the eaves of Summerhall. Nearby is a faded-looking chair with a mobile phone resting on it. Suddenly, the phone rings, and so begins our journey, facilitated by the whims of a voice on the end of the line. Theatre on a Long Thin Wire is a […]