A tiny theatre, in a quirky pub in Kentish Town, on a lazy Sunday afternoon, hosted the first of what will be a monthly programme of Cloud Dance Sundays. Confronting harrowing subject matter, the billing was far from laid back, proving that Cloud Dance is serious in its initiative to reach new audiences (an ambition […]

Chris Cresswell’s persona in Qua Qua Qua, his homage to Jaques Tati, is a long, long way from the Chris Creswell who plays the booming frontman and impresario of the wacky high energy cabaret Voodoo Vaudeville, or from Creswell’s alter ego in that show, the unctuous and knowing Baby Warhol hand puppet, floating in a picture frame […]

There’s a sense of anticipation that comes with being led down down into the Old Police Cells underneath Brighton Town Hall. The history of this place, the old brickwork, the windowless subterranean world; the echoey acoustics and the dusty, musty smells. This atmospheric space is the venue for Spun Glass Theatre’s production You Left Me in […]

What is curious about The Bear is the way it creeps up on you – how you think it’s about one thing and halfway through you start to realise that it’s really about something else entirely. The story goes that Angela was a solicitor’s clerk, working on a murder case. On her own one day with the […]

Brighton Festival has a long-standing commitment to what was once called ‘street theatre’ or ‘street arts’ but which now tends to be called ‘outdoor arts’. Which is – or at least in Total Theatre’s opinion should be – work that is presented in public spaces, free to audiences and ideally unticketed, so that the passer-by […]