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 […]

This is a flinty and enigmatic work by sound artist, writer and performer Melanie Wilson which interweaves the lives of three women, separated by time and circumstance. The landscape of Exmoor and the narrator’s camera are the lenses through which we observe these lives as they slowly emerge from the shadows and take shape. Melanie […]

Dear Martin and Damir, I am writing to congratulate you both on winning the Nefertiti Award for your performance Holiday on Stage at the Basement last night. It was well deserved, though I know lots of other companies who should have won it instead. Yours sincerely, a fan. Wrong-footing, double-crossing, provoking and mollifying, Martin Schick […]

Matty’s mother is packing his suitcase for him to leave home. In a room full of cuddly toys in all the colours of the rainbow (plus plenty of neon shades), she counts pairs of trousers, t-shirts, socks, off a checklist. She’s matter-of-fact, impatient, over-brisk and chatty, talking to Matty through the bathroom door. Talking to […]

In Stillpoint’s Moon Project there is good chemistry between Rachel Blackman’s character Leilah, and Jules Munns’ Shahab, demonstrated through language and physicality. He is soft and languid, she is tense and jerky; the way they move illustrates their differences and is a strong visual metaphor for the ensuing action. Moon Project is about a collision […]