Jeanne Mordoj is ‘a formidable contortionist and juggler, a mischievous feminist and former bearded lady’. Her latest work, La Poème, is premiering at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, presented under the Crying Out Loud banner. And it is a delight! The structure of the piece is deceptively simple. Lone performer Mordoj makes a slow journey from […]

Meet Taylor who is nine years old and likes tuna pasta, Jessie J, and martial arts. And Bryony, who is 31 years old and likes smoking, walking, and sushi. Bryony is Taylor’s aunty and she thinks Taylor is like a baby deer – innocent, awkward and full of annoying questions (Bambi rather than a real […]

A mocked-up circus tent and the sounds of a late-night carnival, mulched, distorted, as in a dream: Offenbach’s Can Can, a crowd laughing then booing, a dog barking, machinery churning, the wheels of a Ghost Train grinding metal on metal. Coloured beams break the fourth wall to illuminate seats in the auditorium, casting a pattern […]

Nir Paldi of Theatre Ad Infinitum, in his own words Ballad of the Burning Star (premiering at the Edinburgh Fringe 2013) deals with my generation of Israelis who were born into the reality of the occupation. This project is something that has been brewing in my mind for years. When I finished my military service […]

The arrival of the Edinburgh Fringe brochure at the Total Theatre editorial office always arouses mixed feelings – a frisson of excitement, of course, at the thought of a month-long bonanza of theatre, but also a sense of dread at the prospect of wading through something the size of a telephone directory, trying to work […]