Lost Dog’s dance theatre went global in 2011 with their Place Prize-winning It Needs Horses, which has toured extensively since. Lucy Kirkwood’s Olivier award for Chimerica earlier this year has cemented her reputation as one of the foremost British playwrights of her generation. Like Rabbits, the world-premiering collaboration between them, holds the promise of combining […]

Close Distance’s vital portrayal of four neighbours has first-class choreography and dancing, a great storyline, not too over-inked, tangentially told with convincing dialogue, and a great soundtrack. It’s a full on 75 minutes that always has something catching the eye, the dance is compelling in that way that happens when dancers have fully invested in […]

The Bullet and the Bass Trombone is a show about a haunting. A composer stands at the centre of an empty semicircle of music stands. As his story unfolds – and it’s one whose motives and actions feel all too plausible, of postcolonial resentment, civil unrest and murderous realpolitiks – they start to feel like […]

What makes a person ‘eccentric?’ A lack of inhibitions? Non-conformist behaviour or dress sense? An obsessive interest in just one thing? The group taking part in Funny Peculiar, a walking tour of Brighton, is asked to consider this question before setting off. It is the first of series of quiet, contemplative moments amidst the madcap […]

Crash! A body lands from a height – it’s a wake-up start to the show. The body belongs to a young woman who seems a little bit dazed but OK, shakes her head a few times, tumbles with ease across the small stage. Then – jerk! Some kind of synaptic snap occurs, and she’s thrown […]