Punchdrunk certainly have electrified the Manhattan scene. Since opening Sleep No More in collaboration with Emursive (an elusive production company) in spring 2011, the company has been drawing audiences night after night for a dose of their trademark immersive theatrical experience in which audiences don a white mask and explore sprawling landscapes. This piece is […]

I was never able to decide what I wanted to do more, music or theatre. I had been playing an instrument since I was about 9 years old, and I had played in the sort of band that took defiant pride in doing a good cover of Smells Like Teen Spirit. But I had also […]

As we enter the Dome’s auditorium our eyes are drawn to the colourfully lit stage featuring a multi-level scaffolding construction with industrial tubing arranged like church organ pipes, numerous giant wooden marimbas, a full set of plastic building site barrel timpani, and an array of Heath Robinson-esque apparatus waiting to reveal its purpose. The lights […]

Young children are not the sort of audience who will give a performance the benefit of the doubt, especially two days after Christmas, when there are lots of new toys to play with at home. But as The Little Lost Frog’s audience of three to six year olds and accompanying adults collectively find their way […]

I am a performance and theatre artist, a poet and writer and an entertainer. Sometimes when I am working at my highest ability I am all those things at once… I was an imaginative child. My very first obsessions were based on fairytales, and I lived in the metaphysical realm, with imaginary friends that were […]