Everyone here is trapped. Welsh ex-squaddie Zach (David Woods) has retreated to a cardboard box. His wife Carol (Jon Haynes) is trapped out of sight, perhaps in her own box, perhaps upside down, certainly in an unforgiving marriage. Band mate and fellow war veteran Ieuan (Jon Haynes again) is trapped outside by the door-chain and […]

Will the circle be unbroken? And is a better world awaiting in the sky? Ockham’s Razor breathtaking new show Tipping Point opens with the drawing of a circle, in salt and chalk, around the edges of the performance space, a square with the audience on all four sides. A safe space, a sacred space. May […]

Oh what joy! Such clever clowning! What skilled Lazzi! In Marcel, the art of the gag lives on in objects that fight back (umbrellas, fold-up seats, cigarettes that won’t light), endless entrances and exits through invisible doors, and raincoats dragged on and off and inadvertently shared. But it is more, so much more. It is […]

Kneehigh’s reputation has been built over 30 years, working with a changing ensemble to make acclaimed multidisciplinary popular theatre. Coming towards the end of a four month tour, Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs), written by Carl Grose and directed by Mike Shepherd, packs Shoreditch Town Hall with a cornucopia of characters […]

We meet, and the angels sing… LOST in TRANS gives us a plethora of interlocking love stories. Recordings. Traces. Echoes. Our host for the evening is Tiresias, the blind sage who lived part of his life as a man and part as a woman. This was back in the day – you know, Olympus and […]