On a wet Saturday afternoon I took myself off to see Like a Fish Out of Water, a site-specific performance at Hampton Lido that blended handheld video technology with live action. The project had also taken place earlier in the week at Uxbridge Lido and was developed by Seven Sisters Group in partnership with English National […]

Red shoes! High heels! As I write those words I know they will set your heart and mind racing with images and associations. Shoes, in many and various fairytales, denote transformation, and often signify the awakening of female sexuality, the burden of full-blown sexuality descending on the growing female body, and the escape from the […]

In Before Your Very Eyes, for the first time in their seventeen year history, Gob Squad do not themselves appear onstage, but instead direct a group of 8-14 year-olds who they first met more than three years ago, using texts developed during improvisation and in collaboration with the performers. Before Your Very Eyes is the final part of […]

‘One of you is a coward,’ declares a deskbound functionary of the Assad regime in a dingy basement office in Damascus. Over his shoulder stares President Assad himself, from a paper poster. Assad is not the coward, at least, not according to his advocate. Someone in the audience is; one of the eight London theatregoers […]

What is it that makes a good story? This is the deceptively simple question Forced Entertainment coyly pose in the opening moments of new productionThe Coming Storm. And it’s a big one! Their responses are multiple, thoughtful and partisan, as you might expect from a company whose body of work has steadily dismantled many of […]