This puppet-based show is aimed at ages 3+ and is a high quality, seamless and visually engaging production that parents will probably enjoy as much as their children. As might be expected from a Little Angel / RSC collaboration, the craft disciplines employed are all of the highest order and this, refreshingly, includes the art […]

It is so refreshing, so enlightening to encounter a piece of theatre that is important among the swathes of comedy that engulf the Edinburgh Fringe each year. Jenna Watt’s Flaneurs is just that, a piece of theatre that is important – it is highlighting something bad about the world and is trying directly to change […]

Anyone who plays Talking Heads before a show has already won over a small slice of my pie, and so it continued with this cabaresque medley of original songs and winning repartee from a super-camp and very tall musical duo. It was a strange thing to be sat in my multi-pocketed utility vest, alone and […]

It all begins with a porcelain deer and a porcelain rabbit. From the rabbit comes some pâté, the deer produces some bread, and the two puppeteers eat together. This playful piece then unfolds with more and more surprises as the skilled operators, Charlotte Blin and Julien Mellano, tell a series of short stories about couples […]

Following the huge success of Leo at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe, where it won both a Fringe and a Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Fringe Award, it was a delight to finally catch Circle of Eleven’s magical and rather moving meditation on one man’s state of mind and experience of solitude. Combining unparallelled acrobatics and state of […]