‘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 […]

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity… French performance artist Chris Dugrenier, in the process of reflecting on how things will be after her death, has assembled all her worldly goods into a pile – a total of 2,201 objects, accumulated over 18 years. These are not actually here, in front of us (other than a […]