Writings

Toot Tute

December 16th, 2025 by

Why would Liz Aggiss premiere her new show Crone Alone in a former miners’ welfare institute in a remote part of Northumberland? Creative producer Lisa Wolfe explains what The Tute has that bigger and better-funded venues in the UK lack.  “I never in a million years thought I would have my own space,” says dancer […]

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Troubled Laughter: Encountering the Dark Clown

December 9th, 2025 by

Pain, humiliation, pressure, panic… Kunal M Rajput enters the world of Dark Clown, courtesy of the legendary Peta Lily, and lives to tell the tale. Few encounters in an artist’s life truly unsettle the ground beneath their practice, but Peta Lily’s Dark Clown did so for me. I attended Dark Clown – An Experiential Talk at the […]

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This Is Who I Am – Postcards from South Africa

November 24th, 2025 by

Writer, director, performer, producer! Jeremy Goldstein’s latest project, This Is Who I Am, follows the enormous success worldwide of his Truth to Power Café. Here, he tells us about the show’s latest edition at The Market Theatre in Johannesburg. I’m going to start by recalling how I came to discover the world-famous home of protest […]

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Together We Are Giant

September 25th, 2025 by

Yew trees, giants, wassailing, and witches’ lore. The Inside Out Festival 2025 stretches across Dorset and beyond, and digs deep into the county’s folklore and landscape to bring great works of outdoor arts to life. Dorothy Max Prior reports Arriving to the quayside at Christchurch on a breezy late-summer Friday evening, I see that there […]

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Khalid Abdalla: Nowhere

August 19th, 2025 by

“Welcome to Nowhere. I’m going to share with you how I got here. And what ‘here’ actually means to me.”Bianca Mastrominico reports on Khalid Abdalla’s powerful solo show Nowhere, seen at the Traverse, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025  When Khalid Abdalla walks on stage and begins speaking about the title of his performance, Nowhere, he does […]

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