Review: Hand to God, Vaudeville Theatre
This is not your typical comedy. Not only because a puppet is the main character – which is hardly a new thing after Avenue Q or even War Horse – but because of...
War Horse
Feature: Animating a War Horse
Photo by Brinkhoff Mögenburg It is not characteristic of an actor to wish to shun the limelight. Stereotypically acting professionals are renowned for cravi...
Filskit Theatre: Is the stage ready for its close up?
Visit your local cinema these days and, among the listings for all the big budget blockbusters and rom-coms, you will start to notice an increasingly cultural f...
Dispatch from the Future of Small Scale Touring Symposium hosted by Paines Plough at Manchester’s Royal Exchange.
Two things quickly became clear at Paines Plough’s symposium on the Future of Small Scale Touring, which drew a congregation of producers, programmers, venu...
Review: The Boy Who Cried Wolf
My inner child – never far from the surface – was well and truly unleashed at Bristol Old Vic's gloriously enjoyable The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Re-telling the ta...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Bristol
Tom Morris's new production of A Midsummer Night's Dream marks his first collaboration with Handspring puppet company since War Horse. Eleanor Turney caught up ...