To the sound of pop music, polythene cagoules are distributed to the front two rows. Once we’ve all hushed and settled down in front of the closed stage curtains, there’s a very low key introduction from a bespectacled bloke in a white shirt. He attempts to get us warmed up, there’s a bit of a […]

Anyone who has stepped into Wilton’s music hall will know the majesty of the place. The building alone, imbued with the history of decades of countless performances, is riddled with a tingling theatricality. Father Nandru & The Wolves is the last large performance that it will hold before it undergoes a period of renovation, and […]

This latest production from Bradford-based Freedom Studios, in a collaboration with Deptford-based Entelechy Arts, delves into the complexities of ageing in contemporary Britain and aims to ask pertinent questions as to how ageing is both perceived and experienced – and how we should approach it. Their last major piece of community theatre was The Mill […]

What is most striking about James Thiérrée’s fifth production for Compagnie du Hanneton is not the sheer scale of the ever-transforming, decaying set, nor the exquisitely-controlled and detailed physical scores of the performers, but the fleeting and shifting surrealist world that Thiérrée has crafted in this 90-minute spectacle. Almost steampunk in feel, this is a […]

Dancin’ Oxford 2014, a yearly festival featuring premieres from both emerging and well established artists over an eleven day period, launched in Oxford City Centre on 1 March. For the fourth year running, Moving with the Times, commissioned and produced by Pegasus Theatre, and Dancin’ Oxford featured local choreographers whose new, short works were shown […]