‘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 […]

A swanky hotel room, tasteful decor, immaculately clean linen. A warm bathroom, a bath full of bubbles and rose petals, candles in glass jars. An assignation with a new lover? A weekend break to revive a tired marriage? No, a theatre show/event/experience (it’s hard to name it!); a one-on-one with Adrian Howells, one of two […]

Maybe if you choreograph me… starts at Forest Fringe cafe. The lone audience member is taken on a walk through the streets. Who is this person leading the way? Is she the artist? Has it started yet, you wonder, looking round at the busy, driven people scurrying by and the slow, dreamy people ambling along. You […]

An empty stage, house lights on full, three false starts, then a blast from Carmina Burana (aka the Old Spice ad music), and a great moving lump appears in the back-wall curtain, which is pulled this way and that, chairs and shoes and toilet rolls spilling out of the sides. The curtain is pulled down […]