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The Ballet of the Nations

29/03/2019 Naila Scargill

Actor Billy Zane narrates an arthouse production inspired by the original piece, in which war is imagined as a diabolical dance choreographed by Satan and Ballet Master Death. (read more)

Theatre Programmers Called Out For Racism

26/10/2018 Naila Scargill

Claiming that it is too much of a risk to programme work by black artists is often simply an excuse for racism, a new report argues. (read more)

Paris Pop-up Theatre To Be Run By Refugees

28/09/2018 Naila Scargill

The theatre will be run by an ensemble called La Troupe, consisting of eight core members and other participants, all of whom are refugees. (read more)

Chimerica: Is Ai Wei Wei an Enemy of the State?

09/01/2018 Natalie Andrews

The Symbiosis of China & America (read more)

Daniel Morden: The Empty Hand (Crick Crack Club, Soho Theatre)

21/12/2017 Crystal Bennett

His dark materials: Daniel Morden shines a light at the Crick Crack Club (Soho Theatre) (read more)

Crusty Hero Makes Bad: Lost in Vagueness

17/11/2017 SWP

When the wild side is your USP, don’t be surprised when all hell breaks loose (read more)

Franciska Themerson: Designing the Avant Garde

22/08/2017 Michaela Bear

Whimsical worlds: Revisiting the Avant-Garde (read more)

Loitered Lens: Great British Tattoo Show

20/07/2017 Carl Byron Batson

It’s not just ink at the Great British Tattoo Show (there’s rubber, lace and unguents too) (read more)

Loitered Lens: Womadelaide 2017

02/05/2017 Ian Fry

After 25 years, Womadelaide still surprises. Photos from 2017’s edition (read more)

Unexpected, Imaginative Experiences… with Whalley Range All Stars

03/04/2017 Sean Keenan

Security stopped us because we Went Too Far…. Whalley Range All Stars prove the power of theatre (read more)

Our job, as puppeteers, is to disappear: Frolicked Outdoor Puppet Theatre

16/03/2017 Sean Keenan

Puppetry has a quality that allows us, as puppeteers, to get very close to people (read more)

Disbelief is right there all the time: Maynard Flip Flap

11/03/2017 Sean Keenan

Some audiences are horrible. Maynard Flip Flap’s Rick Allen dares to voice the forbidden truth. (read more)

Art can provide a mirror to people’s lives: Company Chameleon

10/03/2017 Sean Keenan

ance tends to find a way, regardless of setting. Comforting as it may be, there is no real need to invoke the Billy Elliot myth of northern lad shucking off the grim strictures of working (read more)

‘I’m sure she knew she was talking to a puppet’: The Flying Buttresses

04/03/2017 Sean Keenan

rebuchet applies its right to invoke Henson’s Law. (Henson’s Law: Even the world’s best CGI will look dated in a decade, but an awesome puppet will always be an awesome puppet.) Since 2001, spectacle makers, (read more)

Illusions of Weightlessness: The Dream Engine (Interview)

20/02/2017 Trebuchet News

Evoking tears of joy is a delicate art – The Dream Engine have it in hand (read more)

Emotional Journeys Beyond the Fourth Wall: Cirque Bijou

13/02/2017 Sean Keenan

Busy? Hell yeah! Embracing the moment and making an impact with Cirque Bijou (read more)

Urban(e) Legends: Prodigal Theatre & The Urban Playground Team

16/01/2017 Sean Keenan

Fourth wall on the street? Not our style at all. (read more)

Abuse, Song, and MS: Laughing at The Doug Anthony All Stars

01/09/2016 Kailas

Brutally funny, irreverent and extremely politically incorrect. (read more)

Loitered Lens: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

28/07/2016 Kailas

Photos from the visual extravaganza that was Kyary Pamyu Pamyu at Camden’s Koko in July 2016 (read more)

Pop Symbols and Unsettling Icons (Kyary Pamyu Pamyu @ Koko)

25/07/2016 Kailas

On hyper-reality, symbolism, visual constructs and pop music. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu at Koko (read more)

Une Femme Au Soleil: Montreuil Theatre, Avignon

16/07/2016 Sean Keenan

Searching for the mean streets amongst Avignon’s pleasant boulevards (read more)

A Most Dramatic of Comas: The Theater Equation (Ayreon)

09/06/2016 Fraggle

Ayreon’s staging of The Human Equation is anything but comatose (read more)

Celebrating The Legend of Leigh Bowery at The Glory

03/05/2016 Trebuchet Magazine

A night dedicated to the memory of London’s most flamboyant polysexual playperson (read more)

Seductive Storytelling, Metaphor and Myth (Shifter at Soho Theatre)

25/02/2016 Kiarnie Collins

Layered fables, haunting modern myth and Afro-Caribbean folk tales in Crick Crack Club’s Soho Theatre session (read more)

No bad religions, only bad apples: Echoes (Henry Naylor)

19/11/2015 Kiarnie Collins

One very socially relevant idea prevails: religion not as the cause of evil, but as the facilitator for evil people to do evil things. (read more)

Can We Talk About JOHN? (DV8 Physical Theatre)

21/10/2015 Sean Keenan

Provocative, poignant and unashamedly full-frontal, DV8’s John is a rough diamond of confrontational theatre (read more)

Presence Autochtone : Finding and Founding First Nation Culture in Montreal

13/08/2015 Chris Patmore

This year, Présence Autochtone (Montreal First Peoples Festival) celebrated its 25th anniversary of bringing the culture of the aboriginal people of Canada and the rest of the Americas, through film, music, dance and art, to local audiences. (read more)