I Loved Her tells Jessie Cave’s true story about making a baby with a one-date wonder, and salvaging a relationship from the fallout. Part character comedy stand up, part live art with cartoon masks and dodgy shadow puppetry, the shrill tension between the sharp subject matter and giddy form of this show makes it a […]

Twenty people, one room, and a seven foot rabbit with questionable intentions, Invisible Treasure describes itself as an ‘electrifying exploration of human relationships, power structures and individual agency’. There are no actors and no plot as such, just an enigmatic display board on one wall offering cryptic instructions which the audience must decode and carry […]

Good Lord, she gets around, this Lulu. Spreads herself about a bit. A couple of plays by Frank Wedekind (Earth Spirit, 1895, and Pandora’s Box, 1904). An opera by Alban Berg. At least four films, including the GW Pabst classic reworking of Pandora’s Box, featuring the legendary Louise Brooks sporting that haircut. A character in […]

Time is waiting in the wings. Again. Deja Vu. Chelsea Theatre, Sacred Season 2015. A show about the nature, and perception, of time. Last week, Project O’s Voodoo; this week, the new show by Sylvia Rimat, This Moment Now. We start with a riff on time, a beating of time. Sylvia is noticeably absent. We have […]

Commissioned to celebrate the 40th birthday of seminal North London venue Jacksons Lane, Gandini Juggling’s new show meta is a glorious concoction of many of the ideas that the company have explored over the last 25 years – ultimately recalling their earliest experiments with the choreographer Gill Clarke. Built around Abbott and Costello’s famous baseball […]