A bright, full moon shone as I walked to Liverpool’s Unity Theatre to see Wolf Red, the first solo show from Elinor Randle, one half of innovative Liverpool-based company Tmesis Theatre. Even in the city it is impossible not to entertain sublunary thoughts of wildness and lurking threat. By even wilder contrast, Wolf Red is ostensibly about a […]

This show might easily have been a final assessment piece on an MA in Contemporary European Theatre. You can tick off the influences of Beckett, Pirandello, Artaud and Brook in a fairly predictable avant-gardist collage of existential quips, grotesque physicality and random dangling objects (unused). There is evidence of strong performing ability, particularly the female […]

Following the huge success of Leo at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe, where it won both a Fringe and a Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Fringe Award, it was a delight to finally catch Circle of Eleven’s magical and rather moving meditation on one man’s state of mind and experience of solitude. Combining unparallelled acrobatics and state of […]

Having only emerged from East 15 drama school last year, Fools Play Collective have surpassed themselves in their production of Our Soldier, a piece of physical storytelling that places the story of Macbeth among a group of soldiers in wartime. We are guided through the story by keen-eyed reporter Alice Coggins, played by Lottie Ormerod, who does a […]

Nothing Is Really Difficult features three men (Toon Kuijpers, Dorus van der Meer and Bart Strijbos from Dutch Theatergroep WAK) and an audience in a box – a very big box! On arriving at the venue, a space just outside the George Square Theatre, we find the upside-down wooden box. We know it’s upside down because […]