History History History is a translation of a Hungarian film – the film that was meant to be shown on the day of the Hungarian revolution in 1956, at the cinema which instead become the revolutionary headquarters. Pearson does not simply convert one language into another, but gives us a Hungarian history lesson on the […]

Death, it’s all around us. Wearing white sheets and hovering about at our birthdays. It Folds opens and closes with ghosts played by people in white sheets. Like a children’s party or a school play: youthful and full of death. It Folds is comprised of many portraits on death, grief and, I think, youth. You […]

A bourgeois rollercoaster of classical criticism, existentialist musing, and liberal destruction of the past, speckled with interjections of the true life of acting, money, and debt – what good is a Chekhov play nowadays? In Ireland, to be more specific? Who are these nobodies moaning about their mansions? Chekhov was a key exponent of naturalist […]

The room is a small cinema. It has rows of light blue chairs. The rows are long and the fabric is velvety. On the chairs are black blindfolds. Behind the chairs are long black tubes with black cones sticking out of either side. The adults sit on the rows leaving one empty row behind them. […]

This unusual production pairs one adult audience member with a primary-school-aged child from the city, and has been created by Andy Field in collaboration with the students and staff of Sefton Park Junior School. I no longer live in Bristol and this visit was one of the few times I’ve ever been left feeling nostalgic […]