Hug is an incredibly intimate experience, surpassing theatrics and the audience-performer dichotomy with a simple yet powerful device: you are hugged by the person who sings to you. Taking place with roughly 20 audience members and the same number of singers the effect is at once visceral and enveloping, as the combined voices in the room create a […]

Utterly ridiculous. So perfectly simple in its construction and purpose, this is a comic-tap-dance-circus-review-show that is as entertaining as it is hilarious. Utterly devoid of high-minded meaning, if you want to laugh at a beautiful idiot of a clown, come see this show. Every time I thought things couldn’t get more stupid – they did. […]

Before the play begins the three actors (Scott Smith, Kerry Frampton & Jimmy Whiteaker) are playing for us and with us, offering jovial enticements to engage. Their games are declared, we are all in the same room, there is dialogue back and forth, Whiteaker picks up on a audience response and plays with it. I […]

In the decidedly inauspicious surroundings of the Thistle Hotel lobby, outside the gents and inside a large shopping centre, we wait to be invited into a carpeted conference room. Inside, a burger franchise banner has been overlaid on the Freestival flash atop a loosely hung backdrop of a black curtain. At a table on the […]

20 Stories High served me a reminder that my preconceived notions about theatre are best thrown in the bin. No one is without prejudice and before the show I thought, Oh dear, this is going to be worthy and predictable, I’ll go in with an open heart sure enough, it’s my job to do exactly […]