The politics of gender – and specifically transgender issues – are a hot potato right now. There’s a lot of media attention on high-profile transgender women – Caitlyn, Kellie – with endless interviews, articles, speculations and pronouncements from the women themselves and from their family, friends and enemies. Meanwhile, within the tight enclaves of radical […]

In which performance artist Bryony Kimmings is joined by her advertising accounts manager boyfriend Tim Grayburn in the creation of a show exploring his clinical depression, her response to this, and their decision to face it together as they move forward as a couple, now expecting their first child. On one level, there’s not much […]

Welcome to Massiveville, which is in fact a small town populated by puppets. It has a local shop selling overpriced vegetables, a pub, a cottage hospital, and a recreational ground where young people take drugs and make out. Its puppet population includes old codger Howard, whiny middle-class teenager Suki who is like so sick of […]

Victoria Melody has been many things: pigeon fancier, Northern Soul dancer, championship dog handler (with her trusty friend Major Tom, subject of her last show). That show weaved together stories of the dog’s bid to win competitions with her own attempts at the beauty queen business – come on down Mrs Brighton! Part of her […]

A chair, a man, a white envelope: The Letter starts with the arrival of the eponymous letter, which becomes an object of play in the show’s wordless opening sequence. Jonzi D shows off his quite considerable skills as a mime and physical performer, opening the letter, and reacting with shock to its contents. He stares, […]