The relationship between television and theatre has always been an intimate and challenging affair. So close are the two mediums, sharing audiences and industry professionals, that it is easy to see how they can influence each other. Attic Erratic present Sarah Collins’s new play Choir Girl, which has a decided nod towards the television series [...]

Rational madness. What is it and why should we care? Alirio Zavarce’s performance, The Book of Loco, attempts to outline his ideas on rational madness and why we should take note. In its simplest form, rational madness is the everyday around us. From the mundane to the quirky, we accept what society and the authorities tell [...]

It’s not often you leave a theatre show feeling that what you’ve seen has actually had an impact on you. Too often theatre seems to rebound off the armour that I’ve built from my four-shows-a-week for the last god-knows-how-many years. Then you see a show like Fleur Kilpatrick and Danny Delahunty’s Insomnia Cat Came To [...]

It’s difficult to know where to begin with Cat Jones’s Glory Dazed as it continues its tour from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival via the Adelaide Fringe Festival before returning to the UK. Set within a pub in Doncaster, this four-hander looks at the affects of war upon ex-serviceman Ray (Samuel Edward-Cook) as he attempts to [...]