Whatever else, I liked it. In making a show about manga artist Osamu Tezuka, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui has taken on the challenge of meeting and responding to an enormous body of work (~150,000 pages, hundreds of characters, illustrative styles spanning several decades) and created a rich, intelligent, sprawling work which communicates – and perhaps, for some, […]

Handspring Puppet Company are best known in the UK for their key contribution to the multi-award-winning NT production War Horse. Their earlier production Woyzeck on the Highveld – here restaged by director Luc de Wit, produced by a international conglomerate of festivals, and presented here under the auspices of UK Arts International, Puppet Centre Trust and Barbican’s BITE […]

It is the Führer’s 56th birthday, his downfall is imminent, and unease festers in the air of his Berlin Bunker. Stuffed Puppets’ Neville Tranter portrays Adolf’s subservient valet and takes us through a cavalcade of infamous figures, from Eva Braun to Goering and Goebbels, in the puppets he manipulates. Each is a self-obsessed caricature, manifested in […]

Inspired by the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Knut Hamsun, performer Ulrike Quade presents the audience with the solitary figure of a woman, surround by neatly stacked piles of books, reading and making notes. A gentle blue hue illuminates the space, and she is tiny in comparison to the vast environment – a […]

Scary Gorgeous revolves around the themes of sex, pornography, relationships and the need to be popular. We follow two narrative strands: a young couple whose relationship is based around their sexual urges and contemplations of love, and a passive aggressive friendship where two girls (Abbi and Helen) constantly challenge one another’s morals and identity. Rash Dash […]