As we enter a very lively and packed Spiegeltent – one of a group of mobile venues that are in St George’s Square, the Assembly’s temporary home due to its usual HQ on George Street being requisitioned – we’re issued with Top Trumps cards. You remember those don’t you? Collector cards that pre-dated Pokemon and […]

The stage is set simply: two long tables with white tops, a cup and saucer placed centrally on each, and behind one, prim and petite, sits Diana Payne-Myers. She is the eponymous Carmel, celebrating her 80th year with a family gathering that exposes truths and tests assumptions, and within which the life-enhancing benefits of dance […]

In Tomboy Blues – The Theory of Disappointment two performers explore the nature of disappointment and tomboyish behaviour by trailing through their childhood memories, quoting cheesy movies, listening to music, and reading unreliable science books. We focus on the scientific fact that hope is intrinsically built into every human psyche, and that to have hope will unavoidably […]

So here we are, in the beautiful big city where there’s ‘milk and honey in every Frigidaire, and muzak playing in the air’. But wait: every city has its dark side, and there are places that the tourist buses don’t take you to. I mean, who goes to London to see Tottenham, or Peckham, or […]

Billing itself as ‘three short stories narrated through contemporary circus and aerial dance’ Uncharted Waters takes a general theme of the nautical and seafaring. There are (as it says on the can) three pieces presented, these linked, or interspersed perhaps a better way to put it, by live song of a sea shanty nature sung by Dave […]