Give Me Your Love. Give Me Your Love. GIVE ME YOUR LOVE. Yes, yes, yes – Ridiculusmus slay me with a beautifully written, gorgeously designed and staged, magnificently performed show that leaves me weeping. There’s an elephant in the room here. Except it’s not an elephant, it’s a brown cardboard box stabbed with ragged holes. […]

This interactive solo piece from Iraqi-Belgian theatre maker Enkidu Khaled is part lecture, part workshop, part direct audience address, but always complex and often fascinating. At its core, it seeks to address the universal age-old question ‘can art save the world?’ This is lent extra weight by the production’s context, for as the show progresses […]

Italian company Dewey Dell collaborates with Japanese director Kuro Tanino and visual artist Yuichi Yokoyama to create Marzo referring both to the month of March, and the god of war that month is named after. Marzo sets its audience up for a mighty and surreal work. Upon entering the Barbican Pit, we are handed ear […]

Previous work by Yngvild Aspeli, director of Ashes, includes a series of shows by UK-based company Jammy Voo, in most of which (among other things) she performed a different scene where she got into a generally-fatal battle with her own puppet. In a sense, Ashes is these theatrical moments of struggle writ large. The protagonist […]

Stephen Mottram is known for his sophisticated marionette shows for adult audiences, and also for his highly skilled analysis and performance of puppet movement and expression. The Parachute appears to have begun life as an experiment in how minimally humans can be represented, as animated figures, and still have their actions and their inner lives […]