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 […]

A remote border crossing is the setting for this new show from the renowned and much admired Green Ginger whose work, like many of the best UK puppetry companies, receives more recognition outside the UK than within our own borders. This production features classic tabletop puppetry and in design comes across as a three-dimensional staged […]

A blank-looking house on a Brooklyn street is the setting for Then She Fell, a long-running promenade piece that’s been drawing New York audiences for over three years now. Third Rail Projects, led by Zach Morris, Tom Pearson, and Jennine Willet, specialise in immersive work – something that appears to be much less common on […]

Walid Raad, dressed unremarkably in a black t-shirt and dark blue jeans, speaks to a group of 40 people seated in MoMA’s beautifully open Marron Atrium. Armed with blue headphones, his voice is channeled into our eardrums, drowning out the chatter, laugher and general hubbub that fills one of modern art’s most famous buildings. We […]