Dorothy Max Prior meets Joan and Barry Grantham – purveyors of Eccentric Dance and Popular Theatre… So here we are at Jacksons Lane, North London. At it again. A motley crew of professional actors and dancers of all sorts, and amateur enthusiasts of varying levels of ability and experience, all whiling away the afternoon doing […]

‘We live in a world where people want for nothing, we are safe and secure, we are progressive, we believe in the new…’ For your pleasure, at their leisure, 1927 present a brave new world: a Chrome-Crome-Yellow world in which automation liberates us from mundane tasks, turning us all into middle managers; a world that […]

Rachael Clerke dives in to defend Dartington’s living legacy in the BA Theatre at Falmouth University, which is threatened with closure  I have a vivid memory of sitting in a tutor’s office during my first semester as a student on the BA Theatre course at Dartington College of Arts, completely lost. ‘You mean we’re not […]

VesperTime is a charismatically witty yet painful and honest new work by Stacy Makishi. The performance humorously weaves ideas together: the undercurrents of Tracy Chapman’s song Fast Car; the scientific discovery of the world’s loneliest whale; the story of Moby Dick; and the oxymoron that is Demi Moore’s name, in order to unpick Stacy’s troublesome […]

The choice of A Farewell to Arms, centenary aside, seems an odd one for this ambitious and popular company. Ernest Hemingway’s prose may be muscular and vivid, but it is rarely poetic. As a writer he had a determination to keep his work drained of expressiveness. His dialogue has a formality that is, frankly, often […]