Shunt are innovators whose ambitious work has long worried at the definitions of audience, venue and performance, creating perfectly perplexing theatre experiences whose power to unsettle and surprise through sheer theatricality have far outstripped the company’s many aesthetic imitators. The long running and late-lamented enterprise of Shunt Vaults (lost to the murky foundations of the […]

Io Theatre have brought together a stunning ensemble of musicians and performers to stage Jenny Nimmo’s novel The Snow Queen. The seven-person cast use captivating vocals, all kinds of percussion, a recorder, two violins, a clarinet, and even a full-size concert harp to tell the fantastical story of a boy who has inherited the craft […]

Very occasionally, one will come across a piece of theatre that blows away all preconceptions of what a theatrical experience can be, a performance that occupies a special place in the mind of the observer and becomes a benchmark by which to measure all other experiences, often recalled and never forgotten. Mathurin Bolze and his […]

The man himself meets us at the door with a smile, handshake and a bit of banter. He is the perfect host and good job too, for we are about to step into the stories of his now not-so-invisible-hometown, where the cast of his past become the cast of the present and where we get […]

Spanish flamenco guitars, African koras and kalimbas, and Afro-Venezuelan tambores. Loose-limbed Senegalese dancers, legendary Sevillian singers, verbatim voice-overs about migration, and compás clapping in counter-rhythm to the djembe beats. Quimeras is indeed a strange beast, created by Paco Peña in collaboration with various Spanish, South American, and African dancers and musicians. The core of the […]