Making creations about creating can be a risky business. Whilst there are moments in this two-handed collection of short pieces – performed by French mime duo Sara Mangano and Pierre Yves-Massip – where the risk certainly pays off, it is not all smooth sailing. The Child of the High Seas, one of the four pieces, […]

Tonight at the Theatre Royal in Bath, Steven Berkoff shares two of the one-man pieces from his celebrated solo cannon, The Tell Tale Heart and Dog. Giving all of himself to his audience, he presents the work via the conduit of a vibrant single body. Berkoff is a heightened, expressionistic, ever-able thespian who is able to immerse an […]

Uniting the oral tradition with physical theatre, Kathryn Hunter and Marcello Magni come together for Tell Them That I Am Young And Beautiful in the studio space at the Arcola Theatre. Comprised of short stories from around the world, with text by Gilles Aufray, the production is an impeccable example of the strength that lies in simple […]

It was a chance remark from a friend that started me thinking. We were discussing the dilemma for contemporary ‘liberal’ parents in choosing whether to send children to private school or to throw them to the sharks of state education in the inner London boroughs, and this somehow moved on to a discussion about the number […]

Clout are a new young company of Lecoq graduates who have created a memorable production that engagingly epitomises some of the methods the school has made popular. We follow the unfortunate story of the hapless and endearing James Flynch, a young man unceremoniously dumped in the opening minutes of the show for being ‘ridiculous’ and […]