In a cottage in a deep, dark, specifically Eastern European forest, a family suffer a bad, completely empty-cupboarded famine. It’s important that we understand that this famine is a serious problem, but also that the forest is very far away – and so we are worried for the family, but not too concerned that a […]

Shunt are innovators whose ambitious work has long worried at the definitions of audience, venue and performance, creating perfectly perplexing theatre experiences whose power to unsettle and surprise through sheer theatricality have far outstripped the company’s many aesthetic imitators. The long running and late-lamented enterprise of Shunt Vaults (lost to the murky foundations of the […]

Io Theatre have brought together a stunning ensemble of musicians and performers to stage Jenny Nimmo’s novel The Snow Queen. The seven-person cast use captivating vocals, all kinds of percussion, a recorder, two violins, a clarinet, and even a full-size concert harp to tell the fantastical story of a boy who has inherited the craft […]

Very occasionally, one will come across a piece of theatre that blows away all preconceptions of what a theatrical experience can be, a performance that occupies a special place in the mind of the observer and becomes a benchmark by which to measure all other experiences, often recalled and never forgotten. Mathurin Bolze and his […]

The man himself meets us at the door with a smile, handshake and a bit of banter. He is the perfect host and good job too, for we are about to step into the stories of his now not-so-invisible-hometown, where the cast of his past become the cast of the present and where we get […]