Let’s hear it for the technicians, those anonymous, uncredited foot soldiers of the performing arts who, dressed in black, with bowed heads, put in the cables, the leads, the woofers, the tweeters, the mixing desk, the amp, the mics, the floods, the cans, the spots… Quarantine’s Entitled puts the technicians centrestage, using the usually hidden choreography that […]

Somewhere in between ‘missing’ and ‘presumed drowned’ is – what? The limbo of the ladies’ loos, that’s what. So here we are, six of us (ladies and gents, the gents looking somewhere in-between embarrassed and intrigued), and as always there’s a queue, with two of three cubicles occupied – one by Virginia Woolf, and one […]

Reviewed by Dorothy Max Prior and Andy Roberts Her: We’re invited to come with a partner or friend. It’s a trip to the cinema, I’ve found a nice young man, and we’re offered the back row and a box of popcorn (‘salty or sweet?’) by the prettily-uniformed usherette. Well, what could be better on a […]

‘Arthur Cravan: poet and boxer, captain of industry, sailor of the Pacific, muleteer, orange-picker in California, hotel thief, snake charmer, grandson of the Queen’s chancellor, nephew of Oscar Wilde, lumberjack in the great forests, chauffeur in Berlin, Alfred Lord Tennyson’s great nephew’…and so the list goes on. He is best known as a writer and […]

Femme fatale Bernadette Byrne and half-man, half-woman Victor-Victoria are here to ‘educate and entertain the masses’ with a heady mix of sex, gin, and communism. Their feisty and ferociously funny cabaret show pulls together an enticing mix of self-penned tunes and covers of whatever takes their fancy or, as they put, it ‘shamelessly appropriated tunes […]