Writings

Deborah Pearson - Made Visible - Photo by Mark Douet

Deborah Pearson: Made Visible

April 5th, 2016 by

I had quite a few expectations going into Made Visible, but I wasn’t anticipating that it would be wry, and funny. The humour is the play’s saving grace as it retreads a conversation which in real life often threatens to disappear up its own handwringing white angst. In short, it is a dramatisation of a […]

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Broken Cabaret - Something Something Lazarus

Broken Cabaret: Something Something Lazarus

April 5th, 2016 by

Something Something Lazarus, a title you always have to confirm is the actual title whenever you talk about it, is ostensibly a musical, but one which interrupts its form.  The show is structured around the Midnight Sun, an ailing cabaret club, and a setting much like the King’s Head venue it takes place in. The […]

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Hannah Sullivan - With Force and Noise

Hannah Sullivan: With Force and Noise

April 5th, 2016 by

Framed as an experimental collaboration between performance artists and costume designer, this show appears not quite as sold. Rather than accoutrements assembled before our eyes in tandem with the action, this is twenty-five minutes of one (already clad) woman talking. An entirely valid dramaturgy, just not what the marketing had led me to expect. Sullivan’s […]

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The Art of Comedy

April 4th, 2016 by

Dorothy Max Prior on the wonderful training for actors and clowns to be found at The Actors Space near Barcelona Are you ready? Are the other players ready? Is the audience ready? It is day one of The Art of Comedy, a week-long residential course at the beautiful venue in the Catalan countryside that is […]

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Bikes+Rabbits - These Books Are Made For Walking

Bikes & Rabbits: These Books are Made for Walking

March 29th, 2016 by

Alice Allart, the creative driver behind Bikes and Rabbits, has been handpicked by creative producer Crying Out Loud as a rising star of circus arts, with a penchant for playing with circus and theatricality. Her company is interested in working with character, narrative, and filmic aesthetics in circus, and the show begins with all of […]

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