At first Franko B’s new work Because of Love – Volume 1 appears as resolutely non-theatrical as his previous offerings. Incorporating an uncompromisingly opaque mise-en-scene and sections of unblinking repetition that lead nowhere, it very politely puts both fingers up at the proscenium arch that surrounds it. Yet it also weaves a story through our subconscious through […]

A weekend at ‘the nation’s capital of seaside entertainment’ by Lisa Wolfe (writer) and Peter Chrisp (photographer/researcher) Friday 15 February 2013 Vic Godard and the Subway Sect’s lyrics accompany our journey North from one slightly seedy beach-front tourist destination (Brighton) to this one: “Good old fun-packed Blackpool by the sea. Flat-capped sex trap Blackpool. One […]

Showing as a revival alongside Two Cigarettes In the Dark, Vollmond, meaning full moon, was first performed in 2006. The company of twelve dancers offered a chair for the audience’s ‘ghost to have seat too’, embodying our alter-ego on stage. They filled a bleak, barren, landscape with a series of sketches drawing on social relationships and behaviour […]

Two Cigarettes in the Dark opens on a stage that is anything but dark. Instead a brilliant white high-walled ballroom occupies the space, framed on three sides by room-sized glass-fronted vivariums – verdant tropical foliage in one, a mini desert and cactus in another, and a giant fish tank in the third. These decidedly artificial landscapes […]

‘At the beginning we didn’t have a map, or even a destination’ say Ockham’s Razor in the programme notes for their latest full-length show Not Until We Are Lost, which opened the London International Mime Festival 2013 at the brand spanking new Platform Theatre in King’s Cross (a cavernous building that is home to the […]