Fringe First winner Rachel Blackman draws her three Stillpoint Theatre solo pieces together for the first time at the low-key CPT; striped over the week, then all in a day. Saturday’s performances begin with The Art of Catastrophe, an autobiographical slideshow by photographer Helen. As with all of Blackman’s work, there is a laudable honesty to […]

Formed in 2004, Lost Dog was created with the express aim of making work that blends theatre and dance within pieces that are framed by unique, character-driven stories. This triple bill at the Arnolfini presented three of the company’s short works. The Overhead Project opens with two individuals on stage in what at first appears to […]

Cartoon de Salvo is celebrating fifteen years of ‘surreal, unpretentious, swashbuckling theatre’. This perfectly describes Hunting the Shark, an entirely improvised play created on the spot on 5 April 2012 as part of Made Up‘s run at the Soho Theatre. As the title suggests, Made Up will yield an entirely different tale each evening, inspired by an audience member’s […]

Dotted Line Theatre is a very new company formed this year by Rachel Warr, a theatre director, dramaturg and puppeteer. Drawing from a variety of theatrical disciplines, the company aim to create new original work with a strong narrative, and a distinctive visual style laced with a playful quality. The story ofThe Lonely One, based […]

From the tip of Iceland, looking south, there is only ocean between you and Antarctica. Unless, of course, a container ship with New International Encounter (NIE) happens to be in your sight line. The company developed Tales from a Sea Journey on a ten-day trip from Le Havre, France to the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. (They then […]