Let’s hear it for transformation. There is a slow tottering walk on stilettos, the body quivering in its shag-pile jacket and beaded thong, the head bejeweled, bald, white. On the sound system the slowed down groan of Nat King Cole’s ‘Mona Lisa’ and then the words: ‘Hello, I’m Lili Handel, let’s have a party.’ Quite […]

Winter is cold in Sweden. You need to wear a warm sweater. You need to learn how to walk with sticks. You need to know how to construct flat-pack scenery. Thus with minimal fuss the stage is set for an anarchic romp through the Swedish TV crime genre, involving four-piece pop band Fabba, an alarming […]

The stage is bare apart from five microphones on stands at the front and a blurred projection on the far wall. Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti enters. In silhouette, she is a dramatic sharp-edged shape whispering hello to us. Gradually the sound and light build and a tune begins: melodic piano, gentle singing (music by Gary Shepherd). […]

Four very different looking women, four different styles of black dress, four different types of black shoes, four different dining chairs, and four saws – all the same. From B&Q. Holding eye contact and draped elegantly over their chairs, like classical musicians summoning a muse, the quartet slowly pick up their instruments and begin to […]

Having partied their fifteen minutes at Warhol’s Silver Factory (The Factory, 2010), Earthfall’s latest takes them downtown to that other hub of New York 60s bohemia, the much-storied Chelsea Hotel. The second law of rock’n’roll thermodynamics states that lived history and myth, once mixed, cannot be un-mixed and the piece is preoccupied with strategies for […]