Reading Time: 2 minutes“Tribute to revolution” It all starts with an empty plastic bottle and a broken vase. A “show” is about to begin, but the vase needs replacing. Now. Someone sets to work on a new one. There isn’t…
Reading Time: 3 minutes“A courageous attempt to Arendt through Brechtian techniques” In May 1940, three German Jewish women are arrested at Camp Gurs in France: Hannah Arendt the political thinker, Charlotte Salomon the artist, and Eva Daube the communist. Drawing…
Reading Time: 2 minutesUnderground Monk Show is a wonderfully strange, playful and entertaining piece of clown theatre.
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.
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…
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.
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
Reading Time: 3 minutesExperimental cross-arts company Fevered Sleep will make its Barbican debut with public art intervention This Grief Thing.
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…
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.