Two years ago a friend lent me a book called The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. It tells the incredible story of Lacks, a woman who has affected all of our lives in some way, without us and, for many years, even her family knowing. Unknown to Lacks, a doctor took a […]

If you don’t know anything about the work and life of Jorge Luis Borges, don’t worry, neither did I. Idle Motion weave his life, and more specifically his loss of sight in later life, into a beautiful visual narrative combining words, fantasy worlds, love and biography. Beginning with an introduction to the South American author […]

This is a man’s world, and any woman looking to claim otherwise should prepare themselves for a fight and even the surly tarnish of being called a bitch. Bitch Boxer is here to show us that a girl with hope, ambition and drive has nothing to apologise for. The unfaltering, jaw-dropping, heart-thumping performance from an […]

As we intrepidly await the arrival of Red Bastard, who bulges menacingly behind the curtain, slipping skinny and slippery fingers through the cracks, we are accompanied by the soundtrack of ‘Come Together’, an all-too-apt overture. The impressive physical presence of Eric Davis’ bouffon comes with an enchanting level of energy and a perfectly pitched charming […]

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 […]