With its cinematic opening credits and references to film noir, it soon becomes obvious that Hotel Methuselah draws as much from the history of cinema as it does the traditions of theatre. And with its innovative use of projection, such referencing has obviously been put to good use. The live element of the performance is viewed through […]

Clout are a new young company of Lecoq graduates who have created a memorable production that engagingly epitomises some of the methods the school has made popular. We follow the unfortunate story of the hapless and endearing James Flynch, a young man unceremoniously dumped in the opening minutes of the show for being ‘ridiculous’ and […]

4.3 Miles from Nowhere is a collaboration between a group of four theatre-makers and a five-strong folk band. The company wish to explore ways these forms can work together to produce work with a festival audience in mind. This, their second show, sets up a somewhat literal approach to throwing the two forms together by having […]

Bristol-based The Mechanical Animal Corporation have transferred their production of Howard Baker’s play from a warehouse-like space in their hometown to a dingy room in C Soco’s basement, and it’s a context that suits it rather better I should think. The dank room with uneven concrete floor and ceiling plugged by gaffered on pieces of […]

The Girl with the Iron Claws is the first production from The Wrong Crowd, a collaboration between puppet-maker and designer Rachael Canning and writer and director Hannah Mulder. The influence of a maker at the core of the process is much in evidence in the effortlessly aesthetic set: a striking pair of brass spindly ‘claws’ is […]