Theatre Reviews & More

Autobiographical dance comedy has its charms: When I hear a title like Chunky Jewellery, from Barrowland Ballet, my Gen Z mind races thinking about the kind of chunky jewellery I know. The likes of Tatty Divine, big plastic bananas and moustaches dangling from wrists and ears, and the millennial celebration of all things bright and tacky that was slowly phased out to make way for more conservative trends. Then I see an array of big-beaded necklaces, the kind you would find in

More of t-shirts than of tech Just when you think you have seen every creative flyer possible, you are handed a temporary tattoo with...

Feathered fun with a crazy swan: You probably know that Swan Lake is a story that can be told in many different ways. Some versions have...

A life story without a lesson to learn: When you are at school and one of your classmates has an accident, it is a childhood milestone...

Sarah Hopfinger dances with a lifelong companion: At the start of Sarah Hopfinger’s autobiographical dance theatre performance Pain and I...

Mary Magdalene reintroduced, but not revived: Thought you know_____? Well, think again! Perhaps it is a trope that theatre makers like to...

Dance piece about violence and masculinity feels stunted: There is a dance show for everybody. Much like theatre is far more than...

A show about death that is as silly as it is sombre: The Edinburgh Fringe is full of multidisciplined over-promisers. Often when...

A dramatic delve into how we look at dancers: An aspect of live performance that is sometimes taken for granted in comparison to film...

Creature discomforts as a hermit crab struggle to find a home: We have quite a cutesy perception of hermit crabs and how they move...