Following the award-winning Kraken, this show delivers another helping of the same delicious dish. This is not a reference to Wakenshaw’s boyish good looks, but his singular expertise in the art of divergent thinking. Over a number of routines he elaborates simple visual starting points into highly imaginative stories using his virtuoso skills as a […]

This cabaret showcase is overseen by the über-amusing ‘German’ rock duo, Otto and Astrid (actually, two Australian musician-clowns) who expertly teeter on the lips of the shambolic during improvised interactions with their special guests.  There are great participatory games with the audience, such as ’22 second disco’, and of course they play a selection of their […]

Part of the public art programme accompanying the development of the historic Wapping Wharf site on Bristol’s harbourside, A Thousand Seasons Past conjures up characters whose lives were shaped by the city’s docks and the gaol that operated in the area for most of the 1800s. Staged outside in a temporary auditorium on the water’s […]

Returning for its second year at the Fringe (with a new set of stories) This Time Tomorrow offers an intriguing premise – the most intimate of site specific theatre that frames the audience as willing voyeur. We are led from the venue to a car park, to watch (participate in, almost) three separate pieces taking […]

Boxed In explores many of the issues that I am most passionate about; gender roles and the associated stereotyping of expected behaviours, society’s urge to ‘box in’ and label the sexes, and specifically its arguably deeply-established roots in childhood and parental attitudes. Further, as an FE drama lecturer, I have noticed how this has become […]