Take a seat and take on a character; it’s 1983, and you’re here to recreate a murder. Comedian Joe Pops was shot dead at the end of a disastrous set and now you’re recreating a five-minute time loop leading up to his death. This novel piece splits the audience in two with some members sitting […]

‘You forget that all the feelings of the world, the rains, the sounds, the cities, the birds, the people, and everything… is you,’ says Derevo’s announcement of their inspirational new ensemble work, Mephisto Waltz. Know that we are intrinsically part of everything, and that everything – good or bad – is part of us, is the […]

As part of the Meltdown series at the Southbank Centre curated by Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons), this was an evening dedicated to butoh legend Kazuo Ohno, who died, at the age of 103, in 2010. Along with Tatsumi Hijikata, Ohno is credited with developing the Japanese dance form of butoh. In A Celebration of […]

Opening during the Olympic Games, Home:scape, a collaboration between the Czech-based ensemble Teatr Novogo Fronta and one of the UK’s most quietly adventurous venues, appears to counter that global festival of homogenising cultural activity (sport) by bringing together diverse and plural reflections on the nature of home and transitions. Drawing from a wide range of interviews […]

Do you believe in free will? Yes, you answer. Well, did you choose to be born? No, you answer. So, given that this first moment of your life was determined by someone or something other than you, something other than your ‘free will’, and given that every moment from then until now has been a […]