Review: Toy Stories
A journey via 1970's model cars digs into history, family and politics, connecting across the decades with art at its heart.
Genre: Installation Theatre
Review: And Then They Came For Me
A multi-genre piece that can play anywhere, and needed now more than ever. Both to challenge denialists and most of all to illustrate the inhumanity of governments like ours towards refugees
Review: BANSHEE/ WITH ECHOES FILLING UP THE ORBIT, BUT DAMAGED (EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING)
An eclectic mix of challenge and theatre
Review: Not One of These People
Worth 95 minutes of anyone’s time, you come out heavier with the weight of where you’ve been.
Review: Temping
An interesting hour or so in the company of yourself whilst updating records in excel.
Review: Séance
Fifteen minutes in the dark with strangers, listening to the possibility of being in touch with the other side.
Review: There’s a Ghost in My House
Stunning. Greet the nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is.
Review: Yolk and Aliens
A film installation which explores multi-generational memories shared between mother and daughter and daughter and mother.
Review: Ghosts
The ultimate guilty pleasure, and not necessarily in a good way, as the slavery past of Glasgow is blown open in a gentile narrative manner
Review: Underground Railroad Game
The most radical piece of American theatre I’ve seen, and certainly the bravest. See it.
Review: The Archive of Educated Hearts
A glimpse into the lives of four women, through photographs, stories, and voice overs which catalogue their personal reflections along the path to living fully and letting go.
Review: Pigspurt’s Daughter
Guardian obituary, 2008. ‘Ken Campbell was one of the most original and unclassifiable talents in British theatre of the past half-century.’ It just happens that his daughter Daisy is both that and far more. She’s one of the most cunning crafters of comedy and storytelling in the anti-business
Review: Grimly Handsome
If you want theatre to change your life a little and wonder where our DNA and urges trek to, you could do infinitely worse than shiver here.
Review: In Memory of Leaves
On a moored barge Natasha Langridge re-enacts her own In Memory of Leaves updated from a run last year to include this year’s tumultuous events. This is a fine, necessary work inevitably in progress. Let it settle in the water a bit more, and glitter.
Review: The Kid Stays in the Picture
In the best sense this production’s stupefying, a spectacle shot through with theatrical tropes suggests that, if Evan’s revelations could be more frequent, Kid would be dramatically breathtaking too. And it is thrillingly itself.
Review: Oil
This is a fabulous tale. Duff’s portrayal, tightrope-walking tenderness over an abyss of fear and atavistic decisions, forms the long burning-down wick of the play. Necessary theatre, and Hickson’s decision to focus on the mother-daughter axis underscores a neat parable of what we say we love, and how it might really love us back.
Review: Here All Night
Sam’s all night shiner, Beckett’s Wake and Cabaret. Haunting, funny, unmissable.
Review: Borderlands
Meditative and mysterious performance set in the beautiful grounds of Dryburgh abbey
Review: Huff
There is enough to frighten, or at least disconcert, even the bravest cynical adult and kids.
Review: Kin
Review: Land’s End
Video, installations and live performance combine to tell an intriguing story in two languages
Review: And the Birds Fell From the Sky
Formally inventive and genuinely unsettling, this is a truly original piece of work
Review: The Observatory
An extraordinary experimental piece demonstrating astrophysics with theatre techniques.
Review: This Is Just To Say
"my senses were fully engaged in that tiny, atmospheric, candle-lit room"
Review: The Unbuilt Room
This site-specific interactive performance will test your patience and perk your curiosity.
Review: Poland 3 Iran 2
History and entertainment meld seamlessly together in this quirky tale of life, political upheaval and sticker collections.
