The worlds created by Jammy Voo’s all-female clown troupe are always idiosyncratic, intimate and weird. Their combination of vignette, puppetry, physical theatre and clown proposes unsettling worlds where bodies, objects and voices seem animated by external forces – anxiety, social pressure, and of course us, the audience. In Hitchcock’s The Birds, they’ve found a great […]

The Fenlands of East Anglia are strange. Misty, moist, flat, ancient, sinking. Dan Canham and his company give us a visual, aural and emotional account of life in this place. Of generations of farmers, cow-men, horse-men, eel-men. The work is solitary and hard and they love it. The traditional methods, the life on the soil […]

Set within the wonderfully evocative spaces of the Small Animal Hospital in the ex-veterinary school that is now performance venue Summerhall, this immersive film and installation piece is filled to the brim with tangible qualities of history and intrigue that make it a delight to participate in. Tales of Magical Realism is created by Sven […]

A lonely whale researcher, the birth of a pirate radio station, the science of sonar (as demonstrated using a pair of ukeleles), and the real life story of the 52hz whale are woven together in Dumbstruck, an ambitious and rather uneven tale by the band-cum-theatre troupe Fine Chisel. The company ricochet us around from lecture […]

By the time we reach the thirteenth verse of the St Stephen’s Border Ballad, the foundling has had a child of her own, become a painter, escaped to the Highlands via the A9, and been battered by forces internal and external, but we have yet to find out where we stand on the issue of […]