Motor Show is the second collaboration between Shunt co-founder David Rosenberg and choreographer Frauke Requardt, following 2010’s critically acclaimed Electric Hotel. It is the major project supported by 2012 round of Without Walls commissions and will be touring nationally following its premiere here. In stark contrast to the elaborately constructed edifice ofElectric Hotel, the scene is set […]

Interiors has an intriguing, almost sociological, premise. We observe, through an enormous, stage-wide window, a midwinter dinner party. The table is laid, the guests arrive, there’s music, food and alcohol. We observe their interactions, the interplay of social expectations with private impulses and conflicts, as narrated by a mysterious voice, later seen to be a white-clad […]

And Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out was one of those most frustrating of fringe shows, where it’s clear lots of thinking and ideas have informed what you are watching onstage but they don’t make it into the work. A miniature train set loops around the space, there are two running machines, side by side, a drum […]

When a performance begins with an actor explaining the concept of the show to the audience you know something different is about to happen. It could go either way… Surrounded by words and texts in Blackwell’s sprawling bookshop, Creation Theatre present The Factory’s Odyssey. It is a new adventure for The Factory, and their second month […]

Platform 4’s Memory Point(s) is a site-specific piece set in and around The Point in Eastleigh. Formerly a Town Hall, the rambling building offers up staircases and corridors, corners and cupboards, as well as the backstage areas, dressing rooms and unseen parts of what is now a theatre. To create Memory Point(s) Platform 4 worked for 18 months alongside […]