This first foray by Jess Thom into performance making scooped the 2014 Total Theatre Emerging Artist award at this summer’s Edinburgh Fringe. The show develops from her successful work in blogging and publishing that has made her alter ego, Touretteshero, a much loved spokesperson for the illness. And it’s an illness that, despite its fascinating […]

iPhone users and ‘Other’ phone users are separated upon entry into the ever enchanting Spiegeltent that has been packing them in on London’s Southbank all summer. Head-to-toe in gold sequins, Miss Behave charmingly barks orders at us, gently ribbing everyone and getting us in the mood for the conflict ahead. Gameshow is an anarchic delight, […]

Dorothy Max Prior goes to Fierce Festival in Birmingham and finds a city re-imagined A speaking garden, a deconstructed car, a nail bar, and a sit-down meal with a bunch of pre-teen boys. Passive consumption not an option – we’re here to engage, to interact. The opening weekend of Fierce Festival 2014 took its audience […]

Since moving out of the Arches at London Bridge to make way for the Shard, the performance collective Shunt have continued making large scale-works in different found spaces, often playing with immersing the audience into a series of environments. With The Boy Who Climbed Out of His Face though, they have less taken over a […]

Adrian Berry samples the circus delights seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014 whilst judging the brand-new Total Theatre /Jacksons Lane Award for Circus Theatre. Edinburgh this year was a bit of a double-edged sword for me, so to speak. I was actually planning my first year off in 15 years after a few trips […]