From behind the battered old church door there comes a sound like a furious bionic wasp. A sign taped to the door infers that there will be loud noises, flashing lights and a potential risk of magnetic interference to pacemakers. To me, it’s unclear whether this is a health warning, a sales pitch, or a […]

‘My mother always told me you can cure almost anything with a hot bath.’ Two women in identikit white body suits sit in a white bath tub. Except it’s not two women, it’s one woman. A woman and her subconscious self. A woman and her inner child. A woman and her mother’s voice, which follows […]

Right from the pre-set, the audience view this production through a different lens: directly before us is an empty stage, but we can also see our own reflections in the huge and warped convex mirror encompassing the entire upstage area. This gives an effective hint of what it is to come, a highly stylised and […]

Bella with White Collar, I and the Village, The Fiddler, The Praying Jew, The Birthday… We know and love these Chagall paintings – they feed our souls and invade our dreams – and here they are recreated live on stage in Kneehigh’s The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, which charts the great love story of Marc […]

Circus Hub: two shows, one from Australia’s Circa, possibly the world’s number one circus company, who bring Humans to this year’s Fringe; and the other is just the second show from UK based Barely Methodical Troupe, whose sparkling first show Bromance won a Total Theatre Award. Their new show is called Kin.  Let’s start with […]