The clue is in the name: Wunderkammer (cabinet of curiosities) is a vaudevillian affair, a sophisticated cabaret/variety show that presents a series of acts, with no aspirations towards a narrative. Circus not circus-theatre – which is more than good enough for me. All the components of a good variety show are here: lots of breathtakingly […]

Guess who’s coming to dinner? Your deepest fear, your id, your shadow self, the little devil inside you. Call it what you will, it’s here to stay – so at home that it’s in its pyjamas (although sporting a balaclava to remind you that that it may take you hostage at any moment). Cue couple […]

A lone figure on stage – a woman dressed in layers of rich rusty orange, old gold, and cream fabrics, a whirl of silks and cottons of many different textures. A pair of scissors drops down to meet her; a ball of twine unwinds and suspends itself in the space. We hear the rhythmic sound […]

All to the stage please! Cue entrances! Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, please welcome our performers: a stroppy princess in a party frock who thinks she’s the star of the show, a Finnish acrobat who is missing the snow, a slim ginger-haired tightrope-walker who has fallen many times (fallen for a girl); a wide-eyed […]

Dorothy Max Prior at the Edinburgh Fringe 2013 Eight days in, there’s exhaustion for sure – but also a gratitude for the opportunity to see so much theatre work in such an intensive time period. You get a broad sweep of the state of the art in the UK, and you get a chance to […]