‘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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This latest production from Bradford-based Freedom Studios, in a collaboration with Deptford-based Entelechy Arts, delves into the complexities of ageing in contemporary Britain and aims to ask pertinent questions as to how ageing is both perceived and experienced – and how we should approach it. Their last major piece of community theatre was The Mill […]