A handsome, rugged-looking young man, with a cowboy-country tan and tousled hair, his black T-shirt streaked with rust, lifts a glass water bottle to his lips and drinks slowly and purposefully. It’s a wonderfully theatrical moment. The theatre continues. He stands, poised, and looks over at the big rock almost-perched on an even bigger (human-sized) […]
Reviews
IOU: Rear View
May 8th, 2018 by Dorothy Max PriorWhen you book a train seat, do you like to face forwards or backwards? I always opt for backwards. Forwards and you are hurtling into the future, trees and cars and people a blur as you pass them by. Backwards and the past recedes from you, stretching out into eternity. You have time to take […]
Nigel Barrett & Louise Mari with Abigail Conway: Party Skills for the End of the World
February 16th, 2018 by Dorothy Max PriorSkills. It’s all about skills. Party skills. Survival skills. Party Skills for the End of the World: How to mix a martini – shaken not stirred, naturally. How to play a record – yes, there are people in this world old enough to drink alcohol who do not know how a turntable works. How to […]
Vamos Theatre: A Brave Face
February 12th, 2018 by Darren EastIn the distinctive Vamos style (full-masked, characterful, human stories, told with pathos and humour) we are pitched straight into an absolutely recognisable situation: a girl and her older brother, a playful and familiar quarrel, a time in the recent past (but definitely past), and a hint of something more urgent, darker, on the horizon – […]
Mother, Lover, Hero, Dreamer
February 8th, 2018 by Dorothy Max PriorDorothy Max Prior discovers a world of age-old archetypes and new mythologies in a diverse selection of work seen at the London International Mime Festival 2018 If there’s one defining characteristic of work presented at the London International Mime Festival, it is that the work is hard to define; slipping and sliding as it does […]