Yep, Lucy’s back, and the triple threat is intact: she sings, she dances, she acts as if born in a trunk to the side of a vaudeville stage; caustically camp, using popular entertainment mores and memes as a sledgehammer to demolish expectations of the female performer on stage. And once again she has a brace […]
Writings
Boom!
November 19th, 2019 by Dorothy Max PriorBoomtown Fair is more than a music festival with a bit of performance tacked on – it’s a full-on five-day immersive theatre event which invites you in to a living, breathing, fictitious city. Dorothy Max Prior talks to the festival’s narrative director Doug Francisco, to performer Ciaran Hammond, and to ‘citizen’ Frank Foster-Prior to hear […]
Tim Crouch: Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation
November 9th, 2019 by Dorothy Max PriorWe enter the auditorium of the Attenborough Centre, but are led onstage. There’s a double circle of chairs, and bright white light. ‘Don’t sit in the front row!’ someone behind me hisses. ‘They’ll make you join in.’ On each seat is a book.: hardback, plain institutional green, embossed with gold writing that reads: ‘Total Immediate […]
Reach for the Moon – VR in Contemporary Performance and Installation
November 4th, 2019 by Dorothy Max PriorAs more and more artists turn to virtual reality as a medium, Dorothy Max Prior reflects on what works well and why VR – Virtual Reality – has been with us for quite a while. Some would argue that to trace its origins we need to go right back through the annals of time to […]
Little Angel Theatre/Silent Tide: The Adventures of Curious Ganz
November 2nd, 2019 by Edward TaylorThe Adventures of Curious Ganz is a puppet performance ‘based on the impossibly fascinating life of a fictitious scientist of the first Elizabethan era, Joachim Ganz, and featuring the enquiring mind of the monarch herself!’ We enter the theatre to take our seats. The stage is strewn with small tables, circular frames of various sizes, […]