The title feels familiar – there’s a song about that, right? – but in fact it’s a hybrid invention, a twist on the Pat-a-Cake nursery rhyme that features a host of familiar but reinvented characters from other ditties. This is very much the ethos of the production as a whole, whose ingredients are images and […]

Metropolitan. Assimilate. Tolerance. Buzz-words that are splashed across the liberal social media and journalistic media as frequently as Trump, Farage and LePen. In Total Theatre Award Winner Scottee’s new show, they’re emblazoned across large blank walls in thick black paint. Words, words, words. But what do they actually mean? How do they make people feel, […]

She’s not one to do things by halves, so if there’s going to be a stage metaphor, it’s going to be a bloody great big one. First though, is an introductory preamble, by which Ursula Martinez means to make that important initial impact on an audience, and handover her mobile phone for a selfie to […]

Two moments make you hold your breath: a man deftly sweeping a small girl into his newspaper lair; and a man’s whispered description of the girl sitting close to him, ‘I can see a freckle just above her mouth’. It was always going to be risky, this bringing together of grown-up male professional dancers and […]

Nando Messias’ alter-ego / performance persona Sissy has been navigating through gender barriers and society’s fault lines for over seven years in an ongoing series of works. Shoot the Sissy, which premieres at the Chelsea Theatre as part of the And What? Queer Arts Festival builds on Sissy and The Sissy’s Progress – but stands […]