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 […]

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 […]