The title feels familiar – there’s a song about that, right? – but in fact it’s a hybrid invention, a twist on the Pat-a-Cake nursery rhyme that features a host of familiar but reinvented characters from other ditties. This is very much the ethos of the production as a whole, whose ingredients are images and […]

Donald Hutera talks to Michèle Anne De Mey and Gregory Grosjean about Kiss & Cry, which comes to the London International Mime Festival 2017 ‘When the magician shows you the trick, maybe the trick starts to be more magical.’ Now to be honest, I didn’t hear these words issuing from the lips of Jaco Van […]

Cardboard homes, broken bottles and burnt toast – Rebecca Nice goes to SACRED:Homelands, a festival of international installation and performance works.   SACRED:Homelands saw London treated to a five-day festival of international works reflecting on home and displacement in contemporary society. It delivered a loaded and poignant critique that sought to engage with current social and […]

Forced Entertainment’s latest theatre piece plunges us into a whirling world of mock-magic as we witness three performers perpetually failing at a mind-reading feat. Real Magic, premiering at the Attenborough Centre of Creative Arts (ACCA) in Brighton, sees two of Forced Entertainment’s founder members, Richard Lowdon and Claire Marshall, joined by Jerry Killick, who has […]

Metropolitan. Assimilate. Tolerance. Buzz-words that are splashed across the liberal social media and journalistic media as frequently as Trump, Farage and LePen. In Total Theatre Award Winner Scottee’s new show, they’re emblazoned across large blank walls in thick black paint. Words, words, words. But what do they actually mean? How do they make people feel, […]