Three women of different ages, dressed in odd-bod multi-coloured knitted sportswear, make separate entrances, rolling, tumbling or running in from different parts of the Spiegeltent. They group around a table covered in a crocheted blanket. Two have chairs, one has forgotten her chair (she steals one from an audience member, giving him the blanket). ‘Hello […]

‘I’m just going out to destabilise western civilization.’ ‘Can you take the dog with you?’ ‘Okay’ On the floor, shredded paper, strewn like straw. A door is freestanding in the middle of the space. It’s a nice shade of grey. African parrot grey. A woman in a green jumper and yellow shoes is looking at […]

‘Indigenous resilience. Three women running for their life. Separatist politics. A confrontation of toxic masculinity. And unrelenting puppet deaths. This is CanadaHub.’ In his introduction to the second year of CanadaHub, a curated programme of work from across Canada presented at the Fringe, producer Michael Rubenfeld warns against complacency in this most difficult of times. […]

Status reverberates with quality throughout its several artfully combined mediums: the observational precision of the writing, embodied and articulate delivery, mood-altering soundscape and subtly shifts visuals. Indeed, Chris Thorpe would seem to have become a virtuoso performer in a genre of his own devising, albeit with a great deal of help from his collaborators. With […]

The team that brought us The Pianist are back with another one-man physical theatre tour-de-force performed by Thomas Monckton, a New Zealander who trained and lives in Finland, working in collaboration with Circo Aereo. (The Artist is presented as part of the From Start to Finnish programme.) Then, the trials and tribulations of being a […]