Park Bench Theatre’s performance makes ample use of what they define as ‘intricate pedestrian gestures along with high energy contact work’. It does need a little explaining, but it is easy to understand once you see their choreography on the stage. As the two performers set out the dinner table and chairs at the beginning […]

Mary Pearson greets us in her dressing gown at the entrance to the Nightingale Theatre, as if she were just out on her front doorstep one morning and had found a bunch of neighbours milling around. The questions are innocuous at first, then a little more searching (going from ‘How are you?’ to ‘How is […]

The Fantasist opens with Theatre Témoin’s signature mix of the realistic and the surreal as the powerfully played protagonist, Louisa, writhes and tosses against the white sheet background that is her bed – a first scene that captures the unease of disturbed sleep as well as creating suspense as to what will happen next. As she performs […]

Franko B’s Because of Love is the closest encounter I have had with Joseph Conrad’s Colonel Kurtz to date. Like a seemingly disciplined inmate, the performer paces up and down along the celluloid wall of his recollection cell, readying himself for a confrontation to come rather than sparring with images of televised conflicts, military parades or 1960s […]

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 […]