Are there any – girls – in the house? Any good little girls? Any poppets, any princesses, any little angels? Or are there any naughty girls out there? Any tittle-tattles or trouble-makers? Well, whoever you are, all of you – let’s have a party! Mrs Mills, that’s what we need. Mrs Mills tinkling the old […]
Writings
Laurie Anderson: Slideshow
May 20th, 2016 by Dorothy Max PriorSlideshow is Laurie Anderson on speed. I’ve seen her many times before. I’ve seen the mostly music shows, and I’ve seen the mostly storytelling with some music shows. But this is something else. Laurie starts, as is her wont, by walking on with her customised electric violin and playing. But on this occasion, it is […]
Art of Disappearing: The Last Resort
May 19th, 2016 by Beccy Smith2016 seems to be the year when binaural technology really starts to find creative traction in theatre making. The Last Resort is the third show this month I’ve experienced that plays with the possibilities offered by its spatial reconstitution of soundscape, so that sound appears to materialise in specific physical relationship to your head: shooting […]
Ship-shape and Bristol Fashion: the story of salt…
May 18th, 2016 by Selina ThompsonHello Darling One, My name is Selina Thompson, I’m 26, an artist based between Leeds and Birmingham. I make performance about – I’m finding that sentence increasingly hard to finish. And I think it is because I am changing quite a bit. On 12 February, I got on a cargo ship, and sailed from Antwerp […]
Spymonkey/Tim Crouch: The Complete Deaths
May 18th, 2016 by Dorothy Max PriorAs flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, and as flies they are struck down, one by one. The Richards and the Henries. Antony. Cleopatra. Romeo. Juliet. Lear. Macbeth. Hamlet. And the lesser people, them too. All of them. 23 stabbings, 12 sword fights, 5 poisonings, 12 suicides, 2 throats cut, 1 smothering, […]
