Right from the pre-set, the audience view this production through a different lens: directly before us is an empty stage, but we can also see our own reflections in the huge and warped convex mirror encompassing the entire upstage area. This gives an effective hint of what it is to come, a highly stylised and […]

Bella with White Collar, I and the Village, The Fiddler, The Praying Jew, The Birthday… We know and love these Chagall paintings – they feed our souls and invade our dreams – and here they are recreated live on stage in Kneehigh’s The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, which charts the great love story of Marc […]

Circus Hub: two shows, one from Australia’s Circa, possibly the world’s number one circus company, who bring Humans to this year’s Fringe; and the other is just the second show from UK based Barely Methodical Troupe, whose sparkling first show Bromance won a Total Theatre Award. Their new show is called Kin.  Let’s start with […]

This innovative production is very well suited to the intimate tent setting of the Pleasance Courtyard’s Green Venue, designed as it is for theatre-in-the-round. The production appealed to me in terms of its interactive billing as a ‘360 degree swivel-seat experience’, where the audience have some autonomy of decision over their view of the play […]

Dancing Brick’s production certainly made me feel like I’d been hit in the face by one – in a good way! We are implored not to reveal the awesome twists that Thomas Eccleshare’s taut and wonderful play takes (always tricky in a review) but when they come, the gasps from the audience are certainly akin […]