Norwich ahoy! Tagged as ‘one of the UK’s big four’ festivals, Norfolk & Norwich (NNF) is also one the country’s oldest, if not the oldest, arts festival – it can trace its roots back to 1772, don’t you know! This year’s programme at NNF is a little depleted, compared to some recent years, it must […]

Ageing and dementia is one of the go-to topics for today’s theatre makers. Tomorrow, conceived and directed by Matthew Lenton in collaboration with a company of actors and designers, is a highly visual and emotive response. Over seventy minutes, we see lives transformed, moments remembered and lost, the everyday rubbed up against the mystical. In the […]

Young company Sparkle and Dark have been creating and touring puppetry-led visual theatre since 2009. Their work has followed an interesting trajectory, moving from the sort of fantastical storytelling that is puppetry’s natural habitat into more serious subjects: 2012’s The Girl with No Heart tackled the impact of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from a child’s point […]

Housing, especially here in the south east, is currently a national obsession. The premise of The House Project, which draws together sociological and economic research about housing use in Brighton with drama, feels not only timely but almost pathologically compelling. An estate agents’ tour of the sort of grand old villa in Brighton that these […]

We take our seats in the theatre and there on stage, behind a table with his laptop, is Brian Lobel. Above and behind him is a projection screen. Large white seconds count down one minute. Three years ago, during 50 maniacal hours spanned over five days, he played a brutal game of Facebook friendship maintenance, […]