REVIEW: As I Am Naturally
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe metal plains of Salford seem rather quiet for a Friday night, but the black box confines of the Aldridge Studio are about to be melted away.
Category Physical
REVIEW: King Arthur
Reading Time: 2 minutesSlick, silly and often hilarious, Le Navet Bete’s latest production ‘King Arthur’ is a comic reframing of the famed stories of Camelot, fabricated by three “hapless squires” Edgar, Osbert and Dave.
REVIEW: Electra Untitled
Reading Time: 2 minutesOxford’s Offbeat Festival and The Old Fire Station welcomed award-winning, female and queer-led company Vertebra Theatre to the stage with Electra Untitled, their modern adaptation of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy.
REVIEW: The Weight of Shadow
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom start to finish we are presented with Sasha as he mimes, dances and does acrobatics but rather than their usual more freeing and joyful presentation in theatre - they serve to engulf us in the inner horror and turmoil that mental illness can be.
In Conversation with Luca Rutherford
Reading Time: 5 minutesYour intersectional feminist physical theatre show, You Heard Me, comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer. A loud show about quiet power.
In Conversation with Show Pony
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn Show Pony we explore what it means to grow older in a very physically demanding industry. We want to start a conversation, and think it is time to question prejudices towards age and femininity - on stage and off.
REVIEW: Kin @ National Theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutesFounded in 2001, Gecko are an internationally acclaimed physical theatre company, led by artistic director Amit Lahav. Kin was commissioned by the National Theatre, supported by Home Manchester, Lighthouse Poole and London International Mime Festival, and is loosely based on the story of Lahav’s own grandmother, Leah, who fled persecution in Yemen in 1932.
REVIEW: The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much
Reading Time: 2 minutesInternational physical theatre company Vozol Collective have created a wonderfully unique show which I feel very lucky to have watched on opening night, fresh from its successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe.
REVIEW: Woodhill
Reading Time: 3 minutesLUNG’s intention of exposing the untold horrors of Woodhill’s prison system is achieved to staggering effect, encompassing stunning choreography alongside heart-wrenching verbatim.
HIGHLIGHT: Transit
Reading Time: < 1 minuteComing to The Space this winter is a world-premiere physical theatre piece drawn from the lived experience of migrant and marginalised artists.