Writings

Feral Foxy Ladies: I Got Dressed In Front Of My Nephew Today

July 15th, 2015 by

It’s a one-woman production, but the performance is all women. In fact Katherine Vince is the prototypical everywoman as she takes on numerous roles in her realisation of Claire Stone’s perceptive play. Interacting with multimedia and striding unabashed through the fourth wall at will, she lays bare the fallacy of conventional standards of female beauty, […]

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My Name Is B

Company B: My Name is B

July 14th, 2015 by

More of an installation than a narrative work, or even a collection of set pieces, My Name is B demonstrates the cyclical and entropic artifice of celebrity, and the destructive fallacy of living as a Persona at the expense of Self. The 53-minute performance (we are told the running time repeatedly in the rhythmic opening […]

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Periplum 451 Photo Ray Gibson

Periplum: 451

July 12th, 2015 by

In the still of a London night after dusk: overhead tannoy speakers broadcast the dense, loud sounds of helicopters and military aircraft, the reverberations enough to make you wince and cower slightly; and an endless litany of warnings and commands in a number of different languages. High on posts, twirling anemometers measure the wind speed. […]

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Tables, Tracks and Suitcases – Hat Fair 2015

July 11th, 2015 by

Rebecca Nice is there for the 41st Winchester Hat Fair Hat Fair 2015 sees a new artistic director Michelle Walker for its 41st annual street theatre festival – and a new initiative, the Hat Fair Fringe. The fringe showcases and provides professional development for student and emerging artists, alongside the traditional Hat Fair programming of […]

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wonder.land

Damon Albarn / Moira Buffini: wonder.land

July 10th, 2015 by

A few minutes before the start of the show the lights have gone down and the woman next to me is pleading with the usher (who has asked her to switch her laptop off) to let her finish her Facebook messaging. When the usher leaves the woman carries messaging from within her handbag in the dark […]

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