Ada and Ava are twin sisters. We first meet them in their home as elderly ladies, taking tea as the clock tick-tocks. But are they both really here? Where does one self end and another begin? It transpires that Ava is dead and Ada is holding tight to her memory. The mourning is a painful […]

So it seems it is a solo, but soon you realise that it is a duet. While she conjures up many different environments on the stage (a shelter, a hole, a sand desert, a burnt forest), he makes music and sound with his hands, mouth, tongue and even with his feet. The sound of dried […]

Coming to this sell-out show completely fresh, my prior knowledge was limited to an understanding of Nina Conti as an established performer with considerable popularity, judging both by my research and the packed house of excitedly expectant audience members on the night that I attended. Bar knowing that Conti is an extremely accomplished ventriloquist, having […]

Made in response to the Brazilian floods of recent years,  Sao Paulo based circus/visual/physical theatre company ParaladosanjoS have crafted a disorientating and affecting attempt to capture the material and human cost of ‘natural’ disasters. The harrowing toll includes the floods which the company members experienced personally in their home town of Campinas, Sao Paulo; the floods […]

From the co-creators of the acclaimed puppet-theatre show Cell, In Our Hands is a gentle and almost hypnotic exploration of the issues around Cornish trawler fishing – the isolation, poverty and will to succeed that makes both the occupation and the performance itself one of increasingly high stakes and tension. Smoking Apple’s aim here, as […]