This incredibly accomplished performance merges multi-layered sound effects, music and dialogue in an intensely visceral exploration of humanity being pushed to the absolute limits. Given a set of headphones each, the audience enter to atmospheric and slightly disjointed music, and see five performer-musicians in place on stage. This simple headphone device lends a sense of […]
Reviews
Kai Fischer/National Theatre of Scotland: Last Dream (on Earth)
August 16th, 2016 by Sarah DaviesDood Paard: MacBain
August 16th, 2016 by Thomas JM WilsonThis offering, part of the Big in Belgium collection of works at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, collides Macbeth with the relationship between grunge superstar Kurt Cobain and his wife Courtney Love-Cobain, deconstructing the lives that these two sets of tragic figures play(ed) out. Taking the rough form of a triptych the piece lurches between three […]
Sole Rebel Tap: Blushed
August 16th, 2016 by Rebecca JS NiceTap dancers Hannah Ballard and Lexi Bradburn take a sexy and silly look at fairytales for the modern day woman, making as much noise as they can in the process. Aptly choosing tales where shoes are the central focus, Sole Rebel Tap replace dainty ballet slippers from The Red Shoes with clunky tap shoes, and […]
Never Mind the Noise/Haley McGee: I’m Doing This For You
August 16th, 2016 by Sarah DaviesThis is awkward. I’m not quite sure why we all decided to come here. You see, we answered this advert on Gumtree. It looked fun. The kind of thing that you sign up to late at night once the wine is finished. She promised cake. And vodka. And comedy. All we had to do was […]
Abigail Conway: Time Lab
August 16th, 2016 by Thomas JM WilsonThis delightful piece by Abigail Conway (one half of the company subject_to_change) isn’t really a show at all. Rather (developing one aspect of subject_to_change’s work) this is a participatory event, though to use the word ‘event’ suggests something grander and more ostentatious than the delicately poised understatement that is Time Lab. Over the course of […]