Blind Summit do puppetry well. In fact, they do it bloody brilliantly and The Table is most definitely proof of this. Launching the 2012 London International Mime Festival, Blind Summit bring a triptych of puppetry work that explores banraku puppetry, blacked out rod puppetry and some French film noir inspired paper animation. It’s a feat [...]

Phillip Pullman once wrote that, “Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn’t be human beings at all,” and it’s very true. Stories are the way we communicated our history and our lives before the days of Facebook and Kindles, helping us pass history down through generations. Listening to and [...]

The concept is absolutely terrifying and would fill even some of the most established actors with fear and dread. Yet, a team of six actors, three musicians and a man on improvised tech called Giles, turn up to their theatre venue in Edinburgh each day not knowing what they will perform for the next hour. [...]

It’s rare that I return to see the same show more than once unless it is a West End musical and only to please some family member in town. Rarely am I so enthralled that I will quite happily sit through another darkened hour in the name of theatre, especially at the Edinburgh Festival. When [...]