The train lurches to a halt in a dark tunnel. As the minutes pass you wonder ever so slightly whether the next announcement will see you climbing down onto the dingy track, traipsing along behind your fellow passengers and emerging in a disused tube station, en route to escape… Happily, such an eventuality remains purely [...]

The infamous Old Vic Tunnels, home to years of innovative events under Waterloo Station, has teamed up with Heritage Arts and IdeasTap to deliver the first VAULT festival. A swathe of secret adventures and oddball cabaret is on the lineup but, curiously, one of the headline acts of the three weeks is a production of [...]

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 [...]