Feature: Travesti – an “important, surprising and seductive” show
Rebecca Hill, Director of Travesti, tells me that she wishes that she had “had a light-bulb moment, but it was more of a dawning realisation that there are thes...
Features
Features: Sam Holcoft, The Wardrobe and NT Connections
Across five centuries of British history, small groups of children seek sanctuary in the same solid, old wardrobe. It’s the safest place they know – but is it s...
Feature: Skitterbang Island – a cross between The Tempest and Wall-E…
“Really emotional and quite magical,” says Director Peter Glanville about Skitterbang Island, an opera for very young children, collaboratively put together b...
Feature: Sick! Festival in good health
Often there appears an impenetrable wall between the sciences and the arts. On one side of the dichotomy is the world of the rational and clinical, and on the o...
Feature: MAC//BETH – “as experimental as they come”
“It’s a production that is visually stunning. It’s got fantastic music, it features a string quartet, has stunning costumes, and a cast that are physically ...
Latitude Festival: Maison Foo’s Pendulum’s Bargain Emporium
"I fell asleep during that one and dreamt about a woman giving birth to a pile of clothes," my friend confesses, feeling a little the worse for wear after our l...