Writings

Les Slovaks: Opening Night

May 27th, 2014 by

The five dancers and one musician that form Les Slovaks are on stage as the audience settles, smiling out at us. They begin with a folk song, in perfect harmony. So far, so Slovakian. Then something happens. The dancers move upstage into a square of light, they huddle in the corner, and one by one break […]

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Alice Tatton-Brown: Ariel

May 27th, 2014 by

This is a delicate and evocative audio journey which takes us through Bristol Central Library on a search for Ariel, the subject of a series of photos found and fallen in love with by artist Tatton-Brown in an antiques shop. The language is imagistic and associative and the narrator has a charming warmth of tone, […]

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Nick Steur: Freeze

May 27th, 2014 by

A completely unique show based around a singular talent, Freeze! crackles into being around a man on his knees balancing rocks on top of each other while his voice, purposefully slow, floats out to us from a speaker, a distraction talking about distractions. The stones rest on large boxes made from mirrored glass, heightening the […]

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Fly Me To The Moon: Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2014

May 26th, 2014 by

Norwich ahoy! Tagged as ‘one of the UK’s big four’ festivals, Norfolk & Norwich (NNF) is also one the country’s oldest, if not the oldest, arts festival – it can trace its roots back to 1772, don’t you know! This year’s programme at NNF is a little depleted, compared to some recent years, it must […]

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Vanishing Point: Tomorrow

May 25th, 2014 by

Ageing and dementia is one of the go-to topics for today’s theatre makers. Tomorrow, conceived and directed by Matthew Lenton in collaboration with a company of actors and designers, is a highly visual and emotive response. Over seventy minutes, we see lives transformed, moments remembered and lost, the everyday rubbed up against the mystical. In the […]

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