REVIEW: Underground Monk Show @ Assembly George Square Gardens
Reading Time: 2 minutesUnderground Monk Show is a wonderfully strange, playful and entertaining piece of clown theatre.
Category Experimental
REVIEW: Sauna Theatre: Aufguss x The Waves @ Summerhall
Reading Time: 3 minutesListening to Virgina Woolf’s 1931 novel The Waves, you get the very strong sense that Woolf herself likely fancied a good sauna.
REVIEW: Searching Blue (寻蓝)
Reading Time: 2 minutesengaging, enchanting and vibrant” Created and directed by Kuik Swee Boon, founder of Singapore’s T.H.E Dance Company, in collaboration with Malaysian sound artist Kent Lee, Searching Blue is a site-specific physical performance exploring spirituality, community, the relationship between human…
REVIEW: This Is Not About Me
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis Is Not About Me acutely explores the shifting meanings of intimacy through Grace and Eli, a pair entangled in an intricate, long-standing relationship.
REVIEW: Imitating the Dog: War of the Worlds
Reading Time: 2 minutesUsing miniature environments, model worlds, camera tricks, and projection, imitating the dog mix the live and the recorded, the animate and the inanimate to create a thrilling, audacious and timely retelling of H.G. Wells’ classic novel.
Following their acclaimed adaptations of literary classics Heart of Darkness (2018), Dracula (2021), Macbeth (2023) and Frankenstein (2024), “multimedia daredevils” imitating the dog push their inventive storytelling to new heights
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Sam Butler
Reading Time: 3 minutesExperimental cross-arts company Fevered Sleep will make its Barbican debut with public art intervention This Grief Thing.
REVIEW: Prayers For A Hungry Ghost at the Pit at Barbican
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Lavishing on desire” Do we desire food out of hungry? Do we desire out of lack? If I crave something, or someone, does it mean something missing in me? E gui (饿鬼 hungry ghost), a term used in pan-Chinese…
REVIEW: By Heart
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘By Heart’, devised and delivered by Tiago Rodrigues, is a piece of experimental theatre that invites 10 audience members to partake in a group challenge: to memorise Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30.
REVIEW: The Bride and The Goodnight Cinderella at Southbank Centre
Reading Time: 3 minutesto (un)mark Botticelli’s four-panel cycle of Nastagio degli Onesti, a tale lifted from Boccaccio’s Decameron, depicts a brutal and chilling parable of male violence and coercion against women. Nastagio traps a woman to marry him by staging an eternal…
REVIEW: A Journey to the West
Reading Time: 3 minutesTraditional Sichuan Opera face-changing becomes a powerful metaphor for fractured identity. Digital projections and electronic soundscapes collide with ancient motifs, visualizing the tension between cultural heritage and global ambition.