Or, to give it its full title: Here is the News from Over There (Over There is the News from Here), a Borderless Twitter Ballad from the Middle East, which follows on from last year’s romping success The Bloody Great Border Ballad Project, also led by Northern Stage’s director Lorne Campbell, with playwright David Grieg […]

A young man moves across the stage, walking along a corridor of light, slowly and carefully placing each foot, his hands busy juggling three white balls in a tight little circle, the balls illuminated in the semi-darkness, and taking on a life of their own: a kind of automata; a perpetual motion machine. The stretching […]

‘The numbers on your headphones should match the numbers on your seats.’ There’s a slight air of anxiety as people try to find their seats, which aren’t in numerical order. We notice as we sit that although it is a sell-out show, there is no-one in the seat to either side of us. whole columns […]

Audience, the 1975 play by Václav Havel, and the first to feature his alter ego, Ferdinand Vanēk, relates a tale in which a brew master embarks on a drinking session with a young, dissident writer and, as the drink loosens his tongue, allows it to become known that he, the brew master, has been employed […]

Perhaps, just perhaps, it is me who is the alien. And perhaps, just perhaps I have landed in some curious parallel universe where things are the same, yet different. Last time I looked, it seemed to me that the use of advanced technology in shows – multiple projectors, evidence of long, complicated periods of pre-production […]