In The Elephant’s Child and Just So from Metta Theatre, a company of eight present a series of semi-improvised animal fables, followed by a puppet-opera explaining the origin of the pachyderm’s proboscis.…

In Part 2 I criticised Belt Up’s Women of Troy for promising more than it offered. This was before I realised that Women of Troy is part of something much bigger.

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In 21 years the closest I’ve come to experiencing physical theatre is A Level Theatre Studies and a few ill-informed cracks about interpretive dance. Where better to overcome my ignorance…

It might sound surprising to hear the visionary filmmaker and multi-media artist Peter Greenaway claiming the death of cinema, given that he is working on three new films to be…

After spending the majority of my time in C Venues and the Underbelly - most of whose theatre spaces are fairly makeshift - stepping into the Traverse feels a bit…

The Factory’s Hamlet is one of the more celebrated fixtures of London’s theatrical underground. Every Sunday, a company of actors pitch up at a different location, each with a selection of…

Her Naked Skin follows the progress of Lesley Manville’s sprightly suffragette Lady Celia Cain, who tackles a perfunctory prison spell like a bracing adventure holiday, before launching herself purposefully at a…

The Fringe is about experimentation in theatre. It’s a safe space where the loss of a grand or two equals a successful show and your career isn’t necessarily on the…

The Female of the Species, written by one of Australia’s foremost playwrights Joanna Murray-Smith, transforms cerebral feminist ideology into a Hollywood movie-like comedy. Drawing inspiration from a real incident in…