A phone rings; a warning to turn off our mobiles. Lights. Low, moody lights. Three bodies – two male and one female, in minimal sporty underwear; fit and honed bodies – are curled up on the floor. There is some flexing and contorting of their back and shoulder muscles, a bit of writhing and twitching. […]

It’s 10pm at Underbelly’s Circus Hub, and the audience are primed for a sassy show after huddling together in the windy outside bar, before filing into the sold-out big top. Head First Acrobats – Thomas Gorham, Cal Harris and Rowan Thomas – provide just what is needed as they bamboozle viewers with a show tightly […]

When we see three workers really engaged with the physical actions of their job,  we can see how inventive people can be. It’s depends on their capacity to treat every action in their day-by-day life work with humour and creativity. The three Trash Test Dummies performers, in the guise of rubbish collectors, show with great ability how […]

A plain and unadorned space, a circle drawn on the ground, a light, a chair. And a body. A human body. A bag of bones. The body belongs to Thomas Monkton, seen previously at the Edinburgh Fringe and the London International Mime Festival with The Pianist. But Only Bones is a very different kettle of […]

High up in the space, curled up around a rope, is a body, and as the show starts, the body descends, falls with a thud. A confused young woman in a smart black trouser suit and red shirt looks out to us. I remember, she says… I remember… She remembers crossing the road, her mobile […]