The full title of the show, A Young Man Dressed as a Gorilla Dressed as an Old Man Sits Rocking in a Rocking Chair for Fifty-Six Minutes and then Leaves… 7, is an entirely accurate and literal description of this performance, which was fascinating, hypnotic, and frustrating all at once. Now in its seventh year, […]

Commissioned by Dance City, the North East’s development agency for dance, R.I.O.T’s choreography includes highly dextrous acrobatic fight sequences between four seemingly stereotypical superheroes, led by the self-proclaimed and increasingly controlling Captain Patriot. R.I.O.T. is co-directed by Deirdre McLaughlin and Joseph Mercier, and Mercier also features in the piece alongside Sabrina Gargano, Jordan Lennie, and […]

‘I work silly hours just so I have something to complain about…clip on earrings…couscous…’ these are what Sophie Rose, writer and solo performer of this show, calls ‘quiet violence.’ The small atrocities that we commit against ourselves on a daily basis without ever really questioning why. She begins by greeting her audience chirpily, chatting informally […]

This performance is a beautiful mix of a lot of different forms. The central performing character is a dancer and she is supported onstage by a singer/musician and a musician singer. This piece sometimes verges into a performed music gig with dance, but mainly it’s an amalgam of dance theatre, singing, and spoken word. Technically, […]

This puppetry and visual theatre performance from Indonesia takes as its starting point a bloody military coup that took place in 1965, opening with a video projection of (literal) puppet politicians giving speeches and live masked performers cheering the events waving red balloons and red flags. One either side of the white cotton screen that […]