Writings

Lady Vendredi Battle Cry

MAS Productions: Lady Vendredi – Battle Cry

October 26th, 2015 by

Voodoo, debauched dancing, white-and-black minstrels, abused crucifixes, popcorn, twerking (culturally appropriated and otherwise), wigs, stilettos (knives and shoes), tits, bums, and a superb jazz drummer. Not your average night at the theatre. What exactly is it? Is it a gig? Is it performance art? Is it immersive theatre? Yes to all of the above. Merging […]

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Stacy Makishi Vesper Time

Stacy Makishi: Vesper Time

October 26th, 2015 by

Stacy is greeting us as we come into the Marlborough Theatre’s cosy, pink, womb-like theatre space. She’s wearing a radio mic, but there’s also (80s pop) music playing, so her words are only just audible, which is rather nice – a kind of murmuring undercurrent. Everyone gets a hug or a smile or a wave […]

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A Blank Canvas & Jabuti - In Her Shadows

A Blank Canvas / Jabuti Theatre: In Her Shadows

October 21st, 2015 by

Churchill referred to it as something other, something outside of himself that followed him, haunted him and, on occasion, consumed him: the black dog. Stephen Fry has publically implored us to consider that there is nothing other about depression, that it is simply, incurably, a periodic aspect of personality that is simply there. There are […]

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Lhomme de Boue

Nathan Israël & Luna Rousseau: L’Homme de Boue

October 21st, 2015 by

Presented at the Wickham as part of Bristol’s inaugural biennial festival of circus performance, Circus City, L’Homme de Boue (The Mud Man) is a collaboration between French artists Nathan Israël and Luna Rousseau, and one of a handful of shows from outside the UK bringing a distinctively European sensibility to the festival. We perhaps see […]

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Fierce 2015: What Will Be, Will Be

October 15th, 2015 by

It’s a Wednesday night in central Birmingham, and we’re heading to BOM (Birmingham Open Media), a venue and artists’ studio close to New Street station which is the designated hub for Fierce Festival 2015, a five-day bonanza of live art, experimental theatre, installations, screenings and parties. We pass old-school Chinese restaurants with red dragon signage; […]

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