If you like your sight gags simple and stunning, your laughs loud and your submarines, well, essentially non-existent, then The Submarine Show is one to watch. Slick and often surprisingly subversive visual comedy abounds in this silly and entirely loveable piece from American duo Slater Penney and Jaron Hollander. A deceptively simple premise allows for [...]

“How’s mum?” Daniel asks his brother for the third time, or maybe it’s the fourth, or then again, it could be the fifth time, or is it the first time after all? New Celts writer Cameron Forbes’ Besides the Obvious relies on these surreal shifts of time and mind, mixing absurdist Beckettian language games with [...]

There is something beautifully and simply tragic about the regal wave, the Duke of Windsor notes, and he demonstrates with a slow and serene wave farewell, the last meaningful gesture of a hand no longer able to “waive the axe or wield the sword”. Born third in line to the throne, only to die in [...]

Considered as one of the greatest pieces of religious literature, John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Process is given a playful and artful adaption by Carl Heap in Beggarsbelief’s A Progress. Centering on Christian, played wonderfully by Matthew Jewson, we follow his journey as he travels from his hometown, the ‘City of Destruction’, to the ‘Celestrial City’ atop Mount Zion. [...]