Lights on, lights off. Is Martin Creed in the house? Enigmatic exchanges between nameless prisoner and jailer. Pinter, perhaps? Unexpected explosions into the space of ludicrous objects and strange creatures. Ahoy there, Ionesco! A disembodied mouth groaning and licking its lips expectantly. Oh, we were waiting for you, Beckett. Channelling Artaud to bring us a […]
Reviews

Gemma Brockis: An Execution (by invitation only)
September 16th, 2018 by Dorothy Max Prior
The Establishment: Fool Brittania
September 10th, 2018 by Matt RudkinShortly after the schoolmaster arrives, the flat part of his mortarboard hat falls off and we know we’re in for a very silly ride. ‘Hello children’ he says – and for the next hour we are Year 9 pupils attending classes in History and Physics. With no discernible political or social agenda, it’s an exercise […]

Death of a Puppet
September 7th, 2018 by Matt RudkinMatt Rudkin encounters death, dissonance and a mid-life crisis in three key puppet theatre shows seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a parody of a puppetry master class conducted by a middle-aged man coming to terms with the fast-approaching death of his father and […]

Colombia: Going for Gold
August 25th, 2018 by Dorothy Max PriorColombia! What do you think of? Cocaine? You surprise me. Miguel Hernando Torres Umba is Colombian, and he has a confession. He has never taken cocaine. His brilliant and beautifully performed one-man show, Stardust, is his response to ‘the painful stigma left by the narco history of his country’. And he takes no prisoners. We […]

Teatr Biuro Podróży: Carmen Funebre / Silence
August 24th, 2018 by Dorothy Max Prior‘Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.’ – WH Auden, Refugee Blues Darkness, fear, fire, terror. Specifically, the plight of civilians caught in war zones – such subject matter is still […]