‘Bad news – I’m dead.’ says Lucia Joyce. Viewed by the world as the mad daughter of the genius writer James Joyce, Lucia is here to tell us her version of her life story, as we watch her moving from earthly existence to afterlife – a true bardo of becoming. The scenography of the piece […]

A theatre show about boys playing basketball: I’m not drawn to the subject, but I like  previous work by performance poet and writer Inua Ellams and physical theatre director Benji Reid (who haven’t to my knowledge previously collaborated), and I’m interested to see what they’ll do together. I leave the theatre on a high, delighted […]

On the way out of this show I was fortunate enough to meet a French woman who greatly appreciated the talents of the lead actor Tchéky Karyo (star of many films by Luc Bresson, as well as TV show The Missing) – who, she told me, delivered the beautifully written poetry with passion and power. As […]