Soho theatre, LondonFearlessly provocative and covered in gunk, Garland delivers a wild and elusive show about queerness and carnality‘It’s divisive.” Well, you’d think so, a “kink performance art” clown show with nudity, bodily fluids, worms and, er, …
Continue ReadingThe composer’s new album features tracks from Hamlet and Everyman, while The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa has a free week on YouTubeDom Coyote says “electronics, acoustics, voice and story collide” in his compositions for theatre. His n…
Continue ReadingThe composer’s new album features tracks from Hamlet and Everyman, while The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa has a free week on YouTubeDom Coyote says “electronics, acoustics, voice and story collide” in his compositions for theatre. His n…
Continue ReadingÒran Mór, GlasgowAn anecdote about a trip to find Paul McCartney’s Scottish retreat turns into a sweet-natured two-handerMilly Sweeney is a young writer gaining traction. Staged in Pitlochry last year, her play Water Colour, about the changing states o…
Continue ReadingThis portrait of a multi-ethnic comic troupe could do with more unpicking, but its reflections on the grind of war, life on the road and the reactive nature of comedy are insightfulIt must surely, sometimes, seem to everyone involved that the name shou…
Continue ReadingThe comedian on non-verbal heckles, one-legged dancing before gigs and his new show about benchesWhy did you get into comedy?I was told the only copy of a map to the lost, golden city of Paititi was hidden in the green-room toilet (ie, sink) of a UK co…
Continue ReadingSoho Theatre Walthamstow, LondonShe draws us in with bursts of manic physical expression and never stops poking fun at her own quirks and compulsions‘Why did Americans decide to elect a dictator for a second time?” a freshly post-somersaulted Maria Bam…
Continue ReadingComedians, theatre-makers and actors including Rachel Weisz, Sally Phillips and Simon Munnery recall the late teacher’s alarming lessonsPhilippe Gaulier, clown guru, dies aged 82Louise Brealey Continue reading…
Continue ReadingThe Canadian performer visited hospices, mystics and cemeteries to research Age Is a Feeling. The show, which has now been performed in 10 languages, has reduced men in their 70s to tearsIt is the summer of 2024 and Haley McGee is performing Age Is a F…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonThe former child magician from New York combines PowerPoint and personal trauma in an off-Broadway import that packs a considerable punchTwo species of modern standup jostle for pre-eminence in Josh Sharp’s hit off-Broadway import t…
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