We enter to a sleeping Mrs McMoon all cosy and comfortable in her spotty housecoat, dozing snug in her red polka-dot armchair. We’ve time to observe her and her environment; a kitchen come livingroom, complete with cuckoo clock and cooker. As she startles and briskly jumps up to answer her ringing outsized phone, we’re immediately […]

By their own admission LIFT have wanted to programme She She Pop for the last few years, only succeeding in doing so this year, and given the evidence of She She Pop’s latest piece Testament it is not hard to see why. A female performance collective, though featuring male members, She She Pop explore the […]

The publicity says ‘Everyone experiences loss every day from the small things to the deeper losses, whether it’s losing your keys or forgetting something…’ Up on the stage, a big jumble sale like heap of clothes lies on a table. A couple of dour looking clowns attire themselves from the mismatched forsaken garments. A red […]

A thrashing punk riff heralds the start of Wendy Houston’s latest work, a tribute to former collaborator and friend Nigel Charnock who died last year. As the music thrums she bolts onto the stage, running in circles before disappearing again. And so begins a show that, although constructed from futile acts and asinine platitudes, resonates […]

Entering the small black box stage of the Marlborough Theatre the audience encounters a drag artist, standing on a plinth, singing Gloria Gaynor’s I will Survive with his back turned to the audience. Then, as he undresses, we see a man wearing a black vest and underpants. His face is covered with white cloth that […]