Sometimes, simple is best. Julian Crouch, however, is not the first name that comes to mind when considering simplicity in the theatre. From the bawdy excess of his Shockheaded Peter collaboration with those dank, camp darlings of underground cabaret, The Tiger Lillies, to the playful opulence of his designs for the Metropolitan Opera, the Brooklyn […]

After a number of successful touring shows, including a contemporary opera for young people (last year’s Swanhunter), the Wrong Crowd have made a new piece, again for young people, which has no words at all. They say in the programme notes that ‘this suits us well as visual theatre makers,’ and you can feel the […]

Inspired by the true stories of women in the 1960s forced to give up their children under pressures from the church, family, or community, Vamos Theatre present a visual narrative of one woman’s journey to discover her birth mother, beginning at her funeral. An organ laments, an elderly gentleman enters. The stiff back and rigid […]

Medea is a myth that centres on Medea’s choice to leave her homeland to follow her heart, joining her lover, the Cretan King Jason. This staple of the Greek canon is a rich exploration of love, betrayal, and vengeance and, as is usual with Greek tragedy, avoids providing an easy answer or singular viewpoint. It […]

This atmospheric response to Monteverdi’s opera Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria is the latest UK premiere from prolific Australian circus company Circa. A regular visitor to London’s Barbican, it is Circa’s first visit as part of the London International Mime Festival. The Return sees six acrobats (three men and three women) share the roles of ‘a man trying […]