Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love is the last play to be staged at Found111 Theatre. The space can be found at the top of the soon to be demolished Central Saint Martins art school building on Charing Cross Road. While the play isn’t the best ever staging of […]
Maddy Price reviews Flexer & Sandiland’s Disappearing Acts at The Place The winning combination of choreographer Yeal Flexer and digital artist Nic Sandiland succeeds in this inventive and thoughtful new piece at The Place. Disappearing Acts is a blend of contemporary dance, digital installation and spoken word that considers […]
Harriet Bignell reviews Appetite as part of the Tellit Festival. Holli Dillon’s Appetite is a funny and touching piece with a slightly unsettling undertone. My initial impression was, were it not for the program synopsis, I would have had little idea that this is a one women play […]
Simon Ward reviews Lunch & The Bow of Ulysses at Trafalgar Studios Two Steven Berkoff plays written 20 years apart telling the story of a couple’s first encounter and then the bitter reminiscences of their subsequent life together – Lunch (1983) and The Bow of Ulysses (2002). Played here […]
If we break a leg, we accept that time and care will work it’s magic. Unlike a lot of physical ailments, Louise Breckon’s underlying larynx condition resulted in a total repositioning of her identity, both professionally and personally. In an (almost) one-woman show portrayed in autobiographical fashion, ‘Can […]
Acorn is a modern reworking of two Greek myths, and tells the stories of Persephone and Eurydice without the distraction of their male counterparts. It isn’t an Angry-Young-Woman play, railing against the patriarchy; it’s a clever use of an ancient tale that provides an amusing insight into the […]
There is much to admire in this personal story which traces the performer’s journey from debilitating illness through to recovery. Adam Pownall fell ill with Guillain-Barré syndrome (or locked in syndrome) back in 2009. The symptoms of the condition developed very quickly, and he moved from being an […]
Monologues. They can fill an audience’s heart with dread, knowing that you are relying on a single actor and minimal props for the best part of an hour. Actors love them on the other hand. All eyes on them alone, their job to beguile the audience with their […]
Smoking Apples produce theatre that combines puppetry and visual imagery, and are known for their unconventional choice of subject matter. In their latest production they tackle the fishing industry, showing the problems faced by small independent fisheries. Our main puppet character is Alf, a man who has fished […]
In this distilled version of the 2014 Royal Court production, Tim Crouch explores our relationship with art and our sense of reality and what is ‘real’. During the course of the production the fictional artist, Janet Adler, is woven into academia, exploited by the film industry and commodified […]
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