Truth is in our dreams’ said Eugene Ionesco. Mr et Mme Reve (Mr and Mrs Dream) is a theatrical dance show by Compagnie Pietragalla-Derouault, made in collaboration with a large software company called Dassault Systemes – an unusual type of collaboration, crossing art/science and art/business boundaries. The project uses video and other digital technologies within […]

Shimmering into the room in a shivering, slithering mass of black material, Lucy Hopkins emerges from within her cocoon to announce that she is an ‘Artist’. Now draped in her black shawl and dressed in a black role neck and leggings Hopkins paints a perfect pastiche. This character, who is our host for the next […]

Lisa Wolfe previews Dublin Theatre Festival It will be interesting to see, in perhaps a decade from now, if the current density of productions of Samuel Beckett’s plays and stories have influenced a younger generation of writers. Will there be a fashion for plays about loss, failure and regret? Will stages be populated with curious […]

Dorothy Max Prior on the Total Theatre Awards winners and nominees So that’s it – the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is done and dusted. Shows have ended, Awards have been given, and the colourful Brigadoon city (purple cows! red-and-gold Spiegeltents! lime-green Astroturf!) has melted into the mist, leaving behind the stern grey brick of all those […]

‘Hello, I’m professor Einstein,’ declares John Hinton as he greets each audience member, playing a young Einstein with the mad hair and thick accent that you’d expect. He is undoubtedly endearing and warm and promises to be an entertaining host for our physics lecture, but unfortunately the lecture part of this piece overwhelms what are […]