Odd Doll Theatre of Puppetry, based in Leeds and making its London debut this month at the Roundhouse, is aptly named. The hero of Odd Doll’s showThe Trick, a large bunraku puppet, is an uncanny figure. He is pale and gaunt, with deep, dark, hollow eyes set in his pale, skeletal head. Bony fingers distinguish […]

Tom Marshman’s new show is at its best when it poignantly draws our gaze downwards to examine the plight and power of our oft-disregarded pins. ’36 inches of blood, bone and muscle’, in his case, jauntily showcased in some frankly fabulous sparkly, star encrusted tights as the lights rise on his lanky frame. This is […]

It’s a bright idea to draw together the range of work inspired by the current vogue for intimate performance into a day-long menu that audiences can skip between. Many venues have tried it, but none with quite the atmospheric verve of Laura Mugridge and Tom Frankland’s Campsite. Here audiences can choose between a selection of […]

Small Talk is a solo performance made by choreographer Wendy Houston for performer Antonia Grove, the premise of which is an actress auditioning for a B-Movie. The performance is carried by a recording of a self-help tape teaching assertiveness. A soft voice talks us through how we can be anything we want, how we can make […]

The Belarus Free Theatre are outspoken critics of the Belarus regime – a company who have themselves faced political repression and who have first-hand experience of arrests, protests and refuge. Minsk 2011: a Reply to Kathy Acker is a theatrical telling of Minsk and its many scars, with a particular focus on freedom of expression and sexuality […]