Physical theatre
Physical theatre usually dispenses with the need for words and tells its story via phyiscality. It could be mime, it could be acrobatics, it could be so much else and very often is.
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Interview: Spooks, spirituality and social standards
Elisabeth Gunawan on Prayers for a Hungry Ghost, playing at Halloween
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Review: The Unlikely Friendship of Feather Boy and Tentacle Girl, Edfringe.
A show that has spectacular, breathtaking performances that really can't be faulted, yet is strangely still lacking dramatic tension.
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Review: SPLAT!, Underbelly Boulevard
With high octane hilarity and exceptional silliness, this delightfully inclusive performance invites us to think differently about our relationship with art.
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Review: Tatterdemalion, Jackson’s Lane
A selection of sketches with no real narrative, this is clowning as you'll almost certainly have seen before.
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Review: Conchola, Soho Theatre
The witches are back – and they’re not here to behave.
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Review: 50 Ways To Kill A Slug, Soho Theatre
This is the most difficult review I’ve ever had to write, but that has nothing to do with the content of the show or the two performers (Dre Spisto and Joana Nastari) who created it. The problem is that it…
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Review: Shaboom!, Soho Theatre
A clowning show which avoids the obvious tropes, this is sometimes sublime but sometimes slightly over-indulgent.
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Review: Bluebelle, Crucible Theatre
A mesmerising and non-verbal reimagining of the roots of several folk tales, set to stunning music.
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Review: Taverna Miresia, Coronet Theatre
A viscerally human deep dive into the spaces left by death.
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Review: Milk, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
A timely, hugely powerful articulation of the relentless human impact of disaster