Sometimes, simple is best. Julian Crouch, however, is not the first name that comes to mind when considering simplicity in the theatre. From the bawdy excess of his Shockheaded Peter collaboration with those dank, camp darlings of underground cabaret, The Tiger Lillies, to the playful opulence of his designs for the Metropolitan Opera, the Brooklyn […]

Polka Theatre is a wonderful child-friendly venue that has all the homely charm of a worn and well-loved teddy bear, or a toy box you can walk into. It has two performance spaces: the main space with all you would expect of a theatre space and the Adventure Theatre, which used to be little more […]

Against a backdrop of thick plastic vertical strips, Smoking Apples tell a tale of the fishing industry using performance, visual theatre, and puppetry. Not a single line of dialogue is spoken on stage, although some text is delivered through the media of answering machine messages and radio broadcasts. The main part of the narrative is […]

A remote border crossing is the setting for this new show from the renowned and much admired Green Ginger whose work, like many of the best UK puppetry companies, receives more recognition outside the UK than within our own borders. This production features classic tabletop puppetry and in design comes across as a three-dimensional staged […]

When a show opens with its title character being dumped on the autopsy slab, it’s a fair bet that things aren’t going to end well. But Wattle & Daub’s brown-aproned sextet of performers – musicians, singers, puppeteers – are determined to have a good time along the way. They take on the apparently true tale […]