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 […]

Berlin (who come from Belgium, not Germany!) are known to Total Theatre for their previous UK appearance with the complex and intriguing Land’s End, seen at the Brighton Festival 2012 – part large-scale installation, part film, and part live performance. That show investigated the life and crimes of a town that was sited on the border of […]