Untied Artists’ remarkable show – a Bitesize commission that won a Fringe First in Edinburgh this year – is a welcome element of London’s Suspense Festival of puppetry for adults. The central story is of Tom (Jake Oldershaw), an older knackerman responsible for putting down horses that are lame, sick or simply not productive enough […]
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DudaPaiva Company: Bastard!
November 13th, 2013 by Beccy SmithDutch artist Duda Paiva has been creating work that combines his training as a contemporary dancer with puppetry and objects for the past eight years. Bastard! is the company’s international award winning eighth show and is a contemporary visual theatre solo presenting a series of encounters in a giant rubbish tip between a besuited artist […]
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Stuart Bowden: She Was Probably Not A Robot
November 13th, 2013 by Lisa WolfeTalent oozes out of Stuart Bowden. His imaginative, poetic writing is beautiful. He has great comic timing and clownish physicality. He makes an easy rapport with the audience, ad-libs, gives good face. These skills came together in his latest show, She Was Probably Not A Robot, which developed themes from the previous one, The World […]
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Melanie Wilson: Landscape 11
November 4th, 2013 by Lisa WolfeThis is a flinty and enigmatic work by sound artist, writer and performer Melanie Wilson which interweaves the lives of three women, separated by time and circumstance. The landscape of Exmoor and the narrator’s camera are the lenses through which we observe these lives as they slowly emerge from the shadows and take shape. Melanie […]
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Martin Schick and Damir Todorovic: Holiday on Stage – Last Days of Luxury
November 4th, 2013 by Lisa WolfeDear Martin and Damir, I am writing to congratulate you both on winning the Nefertiti Award for your performance Holiday on Stage at the Basement last night. It was well deserved, though I know lots of other companies who should have won it instead. Yours sincerely, a fan. Wrong-footing, double-crossing, provoking and mollifying, Martin Schick […]