The three Cs: creator, curator and critic. How do these roles relate and interact with each other? Is the fact that so many performance artists and theatre-makers are also curators (of projects, festivals, events) a uniquely contemporary phenomenon? If the roles of theatre-maker and critic cross over does that diminish or enhance each role? Is […]

This year marks the centenary of the sinking of the Titanic, an event that continues to reverberate as an archetype of tragedy and disaster. But despite being very old news, the sinking of what the White Star Line billed as its biggest ‘super-liner’ captures the public imagination as if it happened only yesterday. In association […]

A classic circus of (seeming) incompetence, a trampolining suicide bomber, and an abstract promenade dance for waterfronts – Edward Taylor at this year’s Mintfest Billed as their latest performance, Circus Ronaldo’s Amortale, presented at this year’s Kendal Mintfest in the company’s own tent, was not so much new as a re-working of their classic Fili show with a […]

How surreal have your job interviews been? Would Be Nice Though… – a piece from artists Holly Bodmer and Dot Howard, who together make up Odd Comic – places you in the moments leading up to a job interview that will never materialise. You are the interviewees, the hopeful few who have arrived to vie for a […]

On a wet Saturday afternoon I took myself off to see Like a Fish Out of Water, a site-specific performance at Hampton Lido that blended handheld video technology with live action. The project had also taken place earlier in the week at Uxbridge Lido and was developed by Seven Sisters Group in partnership with English National […]