Into the Spiegeltent, her ‘foulard’ billowing behind her, prances the compact, black-clad Lucy Hopkins, Artist. The stage platform is attained with intentionally awkward grace and our hostess introduces herself with grandiose prose, precise annunciation and enormous disdain for us, her captive audience. What follows is a beautifully constructed hour of playful interrogation into what it is […]

Copperdollar have been creating immersive theatrical events since 2008, their work crossing performance and music genres to effectively appeal to the increasingly interdisciplinary festival scene. The Back of Beyond was originally created for Glastonbury in 2011 and is a great choice to open the Fringe festival, plunging its audience into a hedonistic atmosphere that brings […]

Aerial company Gravity & Levity present a show tackling current political events around the war with Afghanistan by drawing parallels with World War I. The emphasis on narrative and characterisation ritualises key moments in the lives of two soldiers: Private George Ellison and John Smith, who died in the First World War and the war […]

Tim Crouch’s plays effortlessly combine compelling character drama with an interrogation of political and theatrical ideas that is exhilarating. In this performance, a collaboration and two hander with Andy Smith, that he professes in the programme has been on his wish list since writing his play An Oak Tree (2006), the subject is connection or […]

In Theatre-Rites’s show (for children 5+, and everyone older), made last year and now touring the UK, four “excavators” – steampunky characters in a particular and powerfully imagined world – explore an impressive mountain of black bin bags. As they work through their conflicts and alliances, they uncover various objects that – animated as puppets […]