This was a show billed for the younger audience, yet it was a complete enchantment for me, a fully-grown adult with no child in tow! From the very beginning, I was enraptured by puppeteer and shadowgrapher Drew Colby, both by his performance persona and by his mind-boggling ability to create extraordinarily animated hand-shadows. I had […]

Wooden, road, pale, stone and woollen were some of Ivor Cutler’s favourite words. I expected honey, or bee perhaps. But nothing was ever as you’d expect it with Ivor Cutler, which this clever and exuberant production makes clear. The dour mystique of the cult Scottish writer and musician is vividly channelled in a splendid performance […]

Sporting an asymmetric blond coiffure and dressed in frock-coat and waistcoat complete with fob watch, the baby-faced Luke Wright takes to the stage as himself, the New Romantic dandy of the title. Despite this appearance, he is no self-centred aesthete, but a virtuoso wordsmith with a sincere and sensitive social conscience. I had not previously […]

A woman weeps. There is a piano and a pile of firewood and a video projection of trees in the snow. The woman leads us to another space. The woman weeps some more and sighs. The woman sighs some more and takes books from a trunk and clutches them to her chest, then spreads them […]

Hungry for adventure, it was a relief to leave the bright efficiency of the box office tent, and side-step into the dusky Stanmer village church yard where dark figures had been lurking and another reality within the familiar setting of Stanmer Park (a country park just outside of Brighton) awaited. The Company of Wolves, Shiona […]