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 […]

Two men are sitting down with a large painting of what could be an aerial view of a battleground on their laps. All you can see of them is their legs and all you can hear is a rendition of It’s a Long Way to Tipperary. Due to an itchy foot the song stalls on […]

What could affect and transform a performance? I wouldn’t usually start a critique with a question – after all, it places the reader in an uncomfortable situation where, rather than passively contemplate what the critic has to say, she or he is required to have an opinion, or at least think about it. But in […]