Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls. It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world. Yes indeedy. Once upon a time The Kink’s Lola was my signature tune when plying my trade as an ‘exotic dancer’. In those days (mid 1970s), I saw myself as a kind of drag artist – playing […]

Snail trails, bear-baiting, and Rice Krispies. Miriam King witnesses three performance works at National Theatre Studio on the last day of SPILL Festival 2015 The durational Snail Portrait, performed over four hours, is a new immersive work combining performance, visuals, text and installation, inspired by the Persian phrase ‘khane be doosh’, meaning ‘home on your […]

Mind, body, spirit. Thomas Wilson reflects on the closing weekend of SPILL 2015 SPILL Festival has, over the past decade, gone from strength to strength, firmly establishing itself as one of the key London arts festivals, programming adventurous and rigorous work from established and new artists, across a number of venues – which for the […]

Polka Theatre is a wonderful child-friendly venue that has all the homely charm of a worn and well-loved teddy bear, or a toy box you can walk into. It has two performance spaces: the main space with all you would expect of a theatre space and the Adventure Theatre, which used to be little more […]

Against a backdrop of thick plastic vertical strips, Smoking Apples tell a tale of the fishing industry using performance, visual theatre, and puppetry. Not a single line of dialogue is spoken on stage, although some text is delivered through the media of answering machine messages and radio broadcasts. The main part of the narrative is […]