Writings

Company 2: She Would Walk the Sky

April 23rd, 2014 by

Birds, we are told, are clocks with feathers – they serenade us at dawn, entering our dreams and guiding us from the mysterious realms of the night into the break of each new day. Company 2’s She Would Walk the Sky is (yes, you’ve guessed it) another contemporary circus show using the oft explored bird-world […]

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ice&fire: The Nine O’Clock Slot

April 21st, 2014 by

‘The nine o’clock slot’ is the typical time for a pauper’s funeral. It’s the slot no one else is likely to buy. There won’t be any guests, or any grave stone, and the priest may lead the ceremony alone. It’s a startling opening premise for any production, particularly one already on slightly intimidating ground by […]

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CAC Spring Performances Photo-Paweł Jaskulski

Chelsea Art Collective: Spring Performances

April 21st, 2014 by

Hosting two evenings of six to eight interdisciplinary performances, Donald Hutera and Lilia Pegado put together a series of works over the two dates. They were held in a humble church hall in Chelsea with local residents from the Chelsea Association of Tenants joining an audience of writers, dance makers, and friends. These Spring Performances […]

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Told By An Idiot: Never Try This At Home

April 21st, 2014 by

To the sound of pop music, polythene cagoules are distributed to the front two rows. Once we’ve all hushed and settled down in front of the closed stage curtains, there’s a very low key introduction from a bespectacled bloke in a white shirt. He attempts to get us warmed up, there’s a bit of a […]

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Wilton’s Music Hall & CulturaMobila: Father Nandru & The Wolves

April 11th, 2014 by

Anyone who has stepped into Wilton’s music hall will know the majesty of the place. The building alone, imbued with the history of decades of countless performances, is riddled with a tingling theatricality. Father Nandru & The Wolves is the last large performance that it will hold before it undergoes a period of renovation, and […]

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