Tim Crouch’s plays effortlessly combine compelling character drama with an interrogation of political and theatrical ideas that is exhilarating. In this performance, a collaboration and two hander with Andy Smith, that he professes in the programme has been on his wish list since writing his play An Oak Tree (2006), the subject is connection or […]

In Theatre-Rites’s show (for children 5+, and everyone older), made last year and now touring the UK, four “excavators” – steampunky characters in a particular and powerfully imagined world – explore an impressive mountain of black bin bags. As they work through their conflicts and alliances, they uncover various objects that – animated as puppets […]

Birds, we are told, are clocks with feathers – they serenade us at dawn, entering our dreams and guiding us from the mysterious realms of the night into the break of each new day. Company 2’s She Would Walk the Sky is (yes, you’ve guessed it) another contemporary circus show using the oft explored bird-world […]

‘The nine o’clock slot’ is the typical time for a pauper’s funeral. It’s the slot no one else is likely to buy. There won’t be any guests, or any grave stone, and the priest may lead the ceremony alone. It’s a startling opening premise for any production, particularly one already on slightly intimidating ground by […]

Hosting two evenings of six to eight interdisciplinary performances, Donald Hutera and Lilia Pegado put together a series of works over the two dates. They were held in a humble church hall in Chelsea with local residents from the Chelsea Association of Tenants joining an audience of writers, dance makers, and friends. These Spring Performances […]