Green Eyed Zero have developed and created a giant touch screen that forms the centrepiece of their climbing-frame set, the whole of which represents a room in which two ‘mentally unwell’ characters live out their retreat. The two Circomedia-trained company members have also built this set themselves, and control their own sound and video cues […]

Lancaster bombers, audience aerobics, an outsize white feather boa, swirling planets and Japanese bedside tales are all part of Incontinental. But there’s no escaping that this is a play about faecal incontinence. Kazuko Hohki describes how it was born in the subsidised cappuccino surroundings of the Wellcome Trust. The onstage presence, patience and fluency of Alastair […]

DV8 is celebrating 25 years of groundbreaking physical theatre this year. Tucked inside a newspaper-size programme for Lloyd Newson’s latest production Can We Talk About This? is a lovingly created mini-brochure charting the company’s development. Images of men in suits, bold physical embraces, and a young Wendy Houston walking on wine glasses summon memories of a company […]

Before us is a collection of rescued objects. An apparent undergraduate bed-sit of reclaimed clutter: a pharmacy sign, wallpapered stag-head and lifesaver ring adorn Seventies G-Plan furniture and beaten lockers, while an incongruous unoccupied fish-tank, ill-looking houseplants and eclectic seating break the mise-en-scene into thirds. Three men occupy this environment – a living archive of […]

This beautifully staged and physicalised piece provides everything that one could wish for in terms of metaphor and images related to sand and sea. As Jane’s mind crumbles due to the tragic progress of early onset Alzheimer’s, so too does the sand in her pockets and beneath her feet. A real strength of 1 Beach Road is […]