Anyone expecting a clear-cut, weepy number about innocence and injustice may be surprised by Death Song. The piece does show a man on death row, whose final conversations are interspersed with a steamy back-story. However, his aggression and abuse surface gradually. By the time he seems technically and morally guilty, you have been sucked too far […]

‘Freddie Mercury trampolining’ is one memory of La Putyka. Goodness knows how my subconscious linked this glamorous, gutsy, tongue-in-cheek performance with Bohemian Rhapsody. And fingers crossed the highly professional, thirteen-strong company from the Czech Republic can see the funny side. It is stunning when the stage opens to reveal a large trampoline for two brilliant performers […]

The River People, previous Total Theatre Award winners for Lilly through the dark, are back with their own unique brand of folk storytelling, combining puppetry and music as we follow the tale of a young man who has hit hard times and lost his way in the world. The real standout of this production is the […]

There is one moment of One Man Show when Nigel Barrett mouths off about the horrific attraction of the self-obsessed actor. His face is covered in a bandage with only his wide eyes showing, whilst a projected and grotesque set of lips and teeth move with disturbing urgency and a rumbling voice proclaims how charmingly terrible he […]

‘See me,’ a sea of ordinary faces asks us. ‘See me’ – two little words packed with such meaning. So begins Nicola Gunn’s At the Sans Hotel, a fractured prism of a performance looking at an increasingly unstable self. It ends with her staring out blinkingly at us, the same sweet expression on her face […]