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 […]

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 […]