‘Beneath how many layers do we hide our true selves?’ asks Phia Ménard of Company Non Nova. The question posed is explored not through words but through physical action, in one of the most intense, focused, and visceral solo performances you are likely to witness at this year’s London International Mime Festival (or indeed anywhere […]

Geraldine Pilgrim has been creating site-responsive performances and installations since long before Punchdrunk ever donned a mask or dreamthinkspeak first re-cast classic text into architectural form. Yet, for contemporary audiences, it’s hard not to encounter her work through the lenses of those other artists who have popularised the form in recent years. Pilgrim’s work rests […]

Dorothy Max Prior reflects on the recent works of Forced Entertainment The Basement arts centre in Brighton on a school night. A young and eager audience, and a stage set simply – just a square of wooden decking and a festoon of lights. Enter two performers, one male and one female, playing themselves (or versions […]

Miriam King reports on Grist to the Mill’s appearances at the Suspense Festival of Adult Puppetry Puppetry, object theatre, animation…  Suspense is a biennial festival that takes place in London in October and November. It aims to ‘explode the myth that surrounds puppetry in this country, proving that puppets aren’t just for kids.’  It showcases […]

The stage is a playground of visual delights. A backdrop of ruched and rumpled cardboard, a folding screen daubed with Picasso-blue squiggles and splurges, a giant metal cylinder that’s an odd cross between a German Wheel and a double-edged tightwire, and a kind of suspended roundabout that doesn’t look like it could hold the four […]