Oh won’t you walk with me! Dorothy Max Prior reflects on recent promenade theatre work West Street, Brighton on a chilly Saturday night in November. Reader beware, we are entering the brash and breezy land of street fighting, arcade gambling, and hen night shenanigans. Walking down this street is like entering a film set, or […]

‘I’m with those who haven’t bloomed, haven’t blossomed, who make wrong choices,’ says Jack Charles. His past is laid bare in the opening sequence from the biographical film Bastardy (2008), in which he nonchalantly injects heroin. The film’s tagline was even blunter: ‘Addict. Homosexual. Cat burglar. Actor. Aboriginal.’ This stage version is more nuanced, combining […]

Running on Empty is Probe’s small scale experimental dance theatre show at Soho Theatre, created by a collaborative team including a writer, a choreographer, and a songwriter. This combination of voice, song, live music, dance, and story is a mix of fantasy and reality between a man and a woman, adrift in an elusive dreamtime. […]

1980 is one of the seminal productions of the late 20th Century, and in retrospect a production that once seen makes the nature of contemporary performance become a little clearer. Not only does it clarify the myriad ways in which Piña Bausch carved a distinctive figure in theatre and dance, but also hints at many […]

Text and puppetry are different languages. Puppetry speaks through image, movement, and rhythm. Text deals in abstraction – ideas – and specificity, of voice, expression, and thought. Text is of our world, shaping our everyday experience continuously, whilst puppetry retains an otherworldliness which is sometimes part of its appeal. For these reasons puppetry adaptations of […]