Who is Stella? What is she? Let’s start (as we should) with the show itself; with what Neil Bartlett chooses to give us. A man, stage left, our right, sitting on a chair in front of the glorious red velvet curtains of the Theatre Royal. A man in black, sitting perfectly still. He stands, he […]

Death, it’s all around us. Wearing white sheets and hovering about at our birthdays. It Folds opens and closes with ghosts played by people in white sheets. Like a children’s party or a school play: youthful and full of death. It Folds is comprised of many portraits on death, grief and, I think, youth. You […]

Brighton Festival and the HOUSE Festival of visual arts are both themed around ideas of home and place this year, and Catherine Ireton extends the theme to the Brighton Fringe, in a pleasing convergence of festival activity. Leaving Home Party is a song cycle that explores what it’s like to leave your verdant, comfortable but […]

There are certain times of our lives whose intensity feels formative. Or perhaps it’s because so much of our selves are being forged in those moments that their experience is searing. The turning point at the end of school before moving on to – who knowns what, exactly? – but ‘adulthood’, is one of those […]

Zvizdal, the latest work by Belgian company BERLIN follows in the footsteps of Bonanza, which controversially won a Total Theatre Award, causing consternation to those who considered it to be a documentary film rather than ‘theatre’, as there are no performers (although there are visible artist-technicians). But Bonanza and Zvizdal, which are both in the […]