Anyone who plays Talking Heads before a show has already won over a small slice of my pie, and so it continued with this cabaresque medley of original songs and winning repartee from a super-camp and very tall musical duo. It was a strange thing to be sat in my multi-pocketed utility vest, alone and […]

It all begins with a porcelain deer and a porcelain rabbit. From the rabbit comes some pâté, the deer produces some bread, and the two puppeteers eat together. This playful piece then unfolds with more and more surprises as the skilled operators, Charlotte Blin and Julien Mellano, tell a series of short stories about couples […]

Following the huge success of Leo at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe, where it won both a Fringe and a Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Fringe Award, it was a delight to finally catch Circle of Eleven’s magical and rather moving meditation on one man’s state of mind and experience of solitude. Combining unparallelled acrobatics and state of […]

Having only emerged from East 15 drama school last year, Fools Play Collective have surpassed themselves in their production of Our Soldier, a piece of physical storytelling that places the story of Macbeth among a group of soldiers in wartime. We are guided through the story by keen-eyed reporter Alice Coggins, played by Lottie Ormerod, who does a […]

This fourth show from Sparkle and Dark employs live music, various forms of puppetry and a ‘real’ central performer to tell a haunting if somewhat confusing fable of lost innocence. The elements are combined to create a coherent and engaging aesthetic, and there is a solid competence throughout the various skills deployed, but despite my […]