Writings

Perth Theatre Co, It's Dark Outside

Perth Theatre Company: It’s Dark Outside

August 10th, 2013 by

Perth Theatre Company and Weeping Spoon productions (Tim Watts, Arielle Gray and Chris Isaacs) burst onto the British theatre scene in 2011 on the tiny back of touchingly powerful animation/puppetry one-man dystopia story Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer, which deservedly went on to tour globally. Their follow-up show, It’s Dark Outside, comes freighted with expectation […]

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The New Wolsey Young Associates, Party Piece

The New Wolsey Young Associates: Party Piece

August 7th, 2013 by

The New Wolsey Young Associates are a fearsomely talented quartet who launch themselves headfirst into Party Piece: a messy, hilarious celebration of house parties – the mornings after and the life ahead for its hungover victims. Jack, Lorna, Aidan and Steve fling themselves around in gay abandon as they recreate the heady hedonism of teenage […]

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Bunk Puppets, Slapdash Galaxy

Bunk Puppets: Slapdash Galaxy

August 7th, 2013 by

‘There are monsters everywhere!’ gleefully intones Mr Bunk into a colour changing torch uplighting his face at the top of his show. Mr Bunk, aka Jeff Achtem, is a properly charming performer, with whom it’s a pleasure to spend an hour. As he leaps, runs, trips and laughs around the stage operating his homemade shadow […]

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Clout Theatre, The Various Lives of Infinite Nullity

Clout Theatre: The Various Lives of Infinite Nullity

August 7th, 2013 by

Shortlisted for a Total Theatre Award in the Emerging Artist / Company category at last year’s Fringe, Clout return with this truly surprising experiment in tone and form. Is it a clown show about suicide? A live art piece playing with endings? Physical theatre exploring the violent urges shimmering just below the surface of tea […]

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Ontroerend Goed, Fight Night | Photo: Reinout Hiel

Ontroerend Goed: Fight Night

August 7th, 2013 by

Roman, Charlotte, Sophie, David, Valentijn. Who will you vote for? Who will I vote for? Voting here in this theatre set-up is anonymous, just as it is in the ballot box in the wider world. As we come into the auditorium we are issued with little electronic devices that will allow us to tap in […]

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