Genre: Physical Theatre 0
Review: East Belfast Boy
An explosive, impressive and energetic exploration of a sub culture in dance from an area of mass testosterone and masculinity
Review: Another One
An impressive physical theatre piece that does seem to meander round a lack of connection.
Review: A Life On The Silk Road
An Epic and Unique Journey Through Dance, Music, Puppetry, and Physical Theatre
Review: Achilles
Fusing dance, physical theatre, prose, and raw, dynamic acting Ewan Downie breathes new life into the ages old tale.
Review: Feed
Creative, innovative, well-performed and directed, a complete show that entertains and informs!
Review: Heather and Harry
Stumble Trip Theatre smash it with wonderful hyper energetic Lecoq inspired madness
Review: Where the Hell is Bernard
In a world where reaching 50 signals the end, four workers escape the hive in a darkly comic physical show.
Review: The Merry Wives of Seoul
Refreshing, engaging take on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Review: HUFF
A gut-wrenching tale of Indigenous brothers caught in a torrent of solvent abuse in the wake of the death of their mother.
Review: Animal Farm
A swift and telling production that’s quick-swerving on its feet with memorable vocal projection and physical acting that’s a delight and enticement. This outstanding outdoor version feels special.
Review: Lucille and Cecilia
Two wacky sea lions with a tale to tell – and don’t forget the mackerel.
Review: My Land
Breath taking circus skill and performance that tells a story whilst keeping you on the edge of your seat and with your heart in your mouth.
Review: Testament
A graduate showcase of physical and absurdist theatre exploring grief and letting go.
Review: Grail Project
unique, accomplished, clever, hilarious yet also often touching and powerful work
Review: Flesh and Bone
Warren’s East London heritage is similar to other writers, and it’s his time to re-tell it now, with new notes and a love of language that muscles in and won’t let go.
Review: Blackpool
"...just under 60 minutes of surprise, joy, sadness and fabulous dancing punctuated by a manic cheesy grin."
Review: The Exploded Circus
A skilful and sensory mix of acrobatics, aerial feats and juggling, encapsulated in a story about finding order after chaos
Review: Blaas (Blow)
Tender, otherworldly, explorative and extraordinary, this is an exquisite show that is more than worth the trip out of town.
Review: The Jurassic Parks
A masterclass in storytelling using physical theatre, puppetry, song and dance, and audience interaction
Review: Female Parts
Adult Orgasm Escapes from the Zoo. That title, from the 1983 version of one of the plays presented here summarises what you can expect. Sadly, subversion has to be rationed. Franca Rame and Dario Fo’s five short plays from 1977 Female Parts, get two outings – they’re joined in a similar bid for self-determination by OneNess Sankara’s The Immigrant, the first black woman in space. Go: it’s likely someone will vault over your head.
Review: Wings
Stevenson’s performance mesmerises, appals, thrills and re-asserts her unique straddling of classic and unquiet modernist in a few dizzying months. Poised somewhere between Happy Days and inevitably Peter Pan, here she’s immobilised everywhere she flies, imprisoned far more than Winnie with her vectors of sand and invisibility. There’s no doubt Wings proves its life in the theatre here. It breaks new air.
Review: #Jesuis
A highly impressive piece of dance and physical theatre which explored our world and its response to the attacks it has suffered.
Review: Border Tales
Brilliant - creatively devised, provocative, well performed, poignant and moving!
Review: Ingo’s War
Delightful and meaningful story - imaginative, creative, moving and extremely well done!
Review: On This Side of Time
Evocative and fascinating! Original contemporary choreography with eclectic music.
Review: Trygve Wakenshaw & Barnie Duncan: Different Party
Delightfully eccentric and inventive physical comedy!
Review: Kin
Well performed and highly skilled, Kin is a wonderfully entertaining, and theatrical show that draws you in immediately.
Review: Cirkopolis
Highly skilled entertainment. Lyrical, dramatic, beautiful, spirited, exciting and intriguing!
Review: Death City
Stunningly choreographed Korean dance where death lingers round every wrist flick.
Review: The Drive
Intriguing new play - friendship, memories of two women on an unexpected road trip.
Review: Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika
Seeing Part Two reinforces the impression that in its virtues and a few vices, there’s nothing like this in theatre. An epic conveying a generational anger undergoing criminal abandonment, it blazons all corners of a nation. And the almost national multitude of cast and creatives Marianne Elliott’s assembled stands proud in this, almost beyond praise.
Review: Jane Eyre
It’s what you’d not expect that thrusts this version before anything else you’ll imagine before hurrying back to the novel. An extraordinary exhausting ultimately incandescent in all senses version of this classic.
Review: Broken Air
Stretching time and space with help of a balloon, a suitcase, one shoe and countless grains of sand
Review: Now you see it
A rich and spellbindingly disconcerting piece of physical theatre, which captures the looping, cyclical, ordered chaos of our lives.
Review: AY/NA Ceyda Tanc Dance Company
This world class contemporary dance is filled with both quick and unhurried graceful movement requiring real control, which is displayed in genuine abundance. Yet the themes are so highly contemporary and their skill-set so excellent that they surpass any contemporary dance performance I have seen, whilst holding to their very own distinctive form and style.
Review: Great Train Robbery
Through an ingenious mix of clowning, physical theatre and wonderful singing, this comic four shed new light on ‘what really happened’ and ‘how they participated.’
Review: Plan B for Utopia
With its low tech props, starkly minimal staging, and exquisite performance, Clevillé has constructed a piece that teeters between being hilarious, heart breaking, and intensely hopeful.
Review: Nuclear War
Simon Stephens has been exploring music and now dance in this piece inspired by his collaboration with choreographer Hofesh Schechter. Maureen Beattie’s intensely committed central performance is worth absorbing, the ensemble make flesh as much of Stephens’ text as could be asked. This feels like a text that needs to risk pushing through more specificity without fear of losing its suggestiveness.
Review: Out of Blixen
Everything in Out of Blixen is realized with a magical economy. Kathryn Hunter’s s in her fluid element here, morphing into twelve-year-old girls and seasoned dowagers to her own directed paces The Europhilic Print Room has transformed the Coronet’s circular space into a consistent vision of theatre.
Review: The End of Things
A fascinating performance, more about the spaces between than the importance of the things we treasure.
Review: Motherhood:(Un)speakable, (Un)spoken
Ninety seconds into this newly-revised one-woman play, Joanna Rosenfeld - emerging in a poke of fingers from a cagoule of brown paper - over-voices herself giving witness to tens of verbatim experiences we hear. This tells us the baby’s a parasite, sucks all your nutrients, calcium from your teeth for instance, causes injury, often permanent, can kill. This is - literally - epic interior theatre.
Review: The Comedy About a Bank Robbery
The Comedy About a Bank Robbery redefines the category, by edging beyond even recent work and revealing a classic structure entering a hall of mirrors and going mad. The musical as well as general ensemble is the most remarkably timed I’ve ever seen in a theatre, and the set designs and shifts the most frantically split into milliseconds. This is an outstanding and redefining farce in every way.
Review: Nel
A fast paced jam packed show, a cinematic experience without technology, a multisensory treat.
