This is my second meeting with the equestrian theatre of Bartabas and once again I find it a complex and challenging task to write about it, not least because Bartabas’s theatre-based work lies in a rather distinct category of his own. Although Bartabas’s performances are built on the foundations of his deep partnership with horses, […]

Dissonance is the story of wise-talking hitman Mikey, ‘The Ghost’, and the existential crisis he faces after a chance encounter challenges him to look more closely at his life’s choices – and question if he ever had choices at all. We first meet Mikey, a bald-headed tabletop puppet wearing nothing but his pants, holed up in […]

If one could take a dream, a fevered reverie of tensions and motions contriving towards some purpose or resolution, and somehow arrest the whole before the morning arrived with light, reason and coherence… If one might then take the resulting chaos of ideas and impulses, synaptic fireworks, macro visualisations, unresolved lines, gravitational and geometrical impossibilities, […]

In their latest offering, Complete Works: Table Top Shakespeare, Forced Entertainment continue to explore their fascination with storytelling, presented here in its purest form. It’s no mean feat: 36 plays over six days, shared between six performers. Forced Entertainment are no strangers to this sort of durational experiment – those familiar with their work will […]

Two robust, muscular, black men compete on a Nintendo Wii as the audience trickle in, feeling like voyeurs entering someone else’s home. Performers Soloman Israel and Samuel Nicholas inhabit a comfortable and homely set, designed on an axis, cleverly incorporating two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a kitchen. The partitions come to a point at centre […]