The view through the window is stripes: pavement, road, pavement, road, pavement, beach, sea. It’s a stratified, multi-directional landscape that is flat and vertical, close and distant that both flattens and extends space. We are encouraged by our Salon host, Anton Lemski (aka Richard Layzell) to spend time during our visit considering the space between […]

It begins with a death. The small, fragile-looking, pale figure is working underground, in a tunnel supported by wonky struts and lit by tiny lamps. He hammers, he shovels. There are drips and echoes, sounds of other work going on unseen around him, and then there is a louder sound. He is alarmed. One of […]

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 […]

Slideshow 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 […]

2016 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 […]