Presenting between four and six pieces every night for the three weeks of the GOlive Dance and Performance Festival, Donald Hutera (dance critic for The Times) does not do things by halves. Personally introducing each artist and seating each audience member in the sixty-capacity space, Hutera’s belief in and support for his artists couldn’t help […]

In the first scene of Ciphers a nervous but determined Justine interviews for a job as an intelligence officer. Her interviewer, Sunita, is calm with a touch of dismissive. A large white paper screen passes across the stage in front of the pair, who are seated side-on to the audience across a white table. When […]

Untied Artists’ remarkable show – a Bitesize commission that won a Fringe First in Edinburgh this year – is a welcome element of London’s Suspense Festival of puppetry for adults. The central story is of Tom (Jake Oldershaw), an older knackerman responsible for putting down horses that are lame, sick or simply not productive enough […]

Dutch artist Duda Paiva has been creating work that combines his training as a contemporary dancer with puppetry and objects for the past eight years. Bastard! is the company’s international award winning eighth show and is a contemporary visual theatre solo presenting a series of encounters in a giant rubbish tip between a besuited artist […]

Talent oozes out of Stuart Bowden. His imaginative, poetic writing is beautiful. He has great comic timing and clownish physicality. He makes an easy rapport with the audience, ad-libs, gives good face. These skills came together in his latest show, She Was Probably Not A Robot, which developed themes from the previous one, The World […]