Hold on to your hats, we have lift-off. The seventeenth edition of the Out There International Festival of Outdoor Arts and Circus runs 28th to 31st May 2025 – and  it is the biggest yet. Dorothy Max Prior previews this year’s bumper edition ‘Out There Festival 2025 is especially significant in terms of international partnership, […]

At the crossroads of puppetry, dance and theatre, Dimanche is an award-winning co-production by Belgian companies Focus and Chaliwaté. It is set sometime in the near future, when humanity has failed to adapt to the new environmental reality of climate change. Lisa Wolfe witnesses – and wonders: when will we ever learn? It is Sunday […]

The 60th performance of Truth to Power Café took place on 3 November 2024 in Vancouver Canada, as part of The Chutzpah! Festival: The Lisa Nemetz Festival of International Jewish Performing Arts. It was presented live with a simultaneous live-stream broadcast across the world. Dorothy Max Prior tuned in from afar, and reports here for […]

Live art musical and eco-lutionary experience The Fabulous Unknown is the latest performance piece by New-York based radical performance collective Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir (some of whom have been assembled here in the UK). Lorna Rees was at the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts in Brighton for Total Theatre Magazine. In case you are […]

Circus-theatre show Raven by Berlin-based Still Hungry was an enormous hit of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 and the London International Mime Festival 2020. Now the company are back with Show Pony, again created in collaboration with Bryony Kimmings. Ellie Higgins was there for Total Theatre Magazine A darkened, bare stage and three performers warming […]