It’s 2033 and this is the premise: What would happen if Suffolk got flooded, and you – a gathering of twelve random members of the public who, as ‘audience’ for this piece are gathered round a table with buttons to push and plastic policemen to position – you, yes you, had to make the key decisions […]

Muscle is an ensemble piece of verbatim theatre that explores what it takes to be a man. Through a series of collected stories the all-male company combine projection, dance and verbatim text to bring these personal accounts of manhood to life. Due to the form Shock N Awe have chosen to explore masculinity I was sure […]

Exuding the confidence of a singing sensation far above her worth, Caroline tells us about her travels around the country in her camper-van, picking up stories of other people’s misery and turning them into songs. Along the way she’s acquired a guitarist, Barney Strachan, deadpan and subtly undermining. Played by Flick Ferdinando, Caroline has zing […]

I Malvolio is the latest of four works by Tim Crouch that interrogate well-known plays by a certain Will Shakespeare, viewing the story from the perspective of a minor character (here, Malvolio, the much-mocked Steward ofTwelfth Night, would-be lover of Countess Olivia, and the butt of Sir Toby Belch’s cruel tricks). This series of solo plays […]

In Belleville Rendez-vous, Fellswoop Theatre, recent graduates from Warwick University, bring Sylvain Chomet’s Academy Award winning animated film to the stage (with the Chomet’s own seal of approval). The stage show starts by placing us in a cabaret watching the Les Triplettes de Belleville jazz trio (double bass, electric guitar, and accordion) – a scruffy-looking bunch of fellows, […]