Interview: Chris Goode (& me).

Written for Exeunt Chris Goode has woken up later than planned and is still waiting for the morning to reveal to him what sort of day this will be “There’s a lot of renegotiation that has to happen…” he is explaining to me “so we’ll do that throughout our conversation, it will be an interesting [...]

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Review: 1927′s The Animals and Children took to the Streets at BAC

Written for www.whatsonstage.com It could be easy to tag 1927’s The Animals and Children Took to the Streets as style over substance; it is none too shabby on the eye and the story, though sweet, feels in parts quite light. But timing is everything and on a day of epic student protest, the story of [...]

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Interview: Dancing Brick

Written for What’s On Stage Dancing Brick’s founders Valentina Ceschi and Thomas Eccleshare are a pairing fast making a name for themselves for telling beautiful and quirky stories. Tonight marks the opening of their 2009 Edinburgh hit 6:0 How Heap and Pebble Took On The World and Won, now embarking on a UK Tour. Inspired [...]

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BAC Twin Peaks Weekender – Plunge into the weird and wonderful with David Micklem

Interviewed for What’s On Stage – 1st September On Saturday 23 October 2010 the BAC will open its doors for a Lynch lock-in to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first British screening of Channel 4′s Twin Peaks, David Lynch’s classic mini-series. Playing each episode in an epic 36 hour marathon, the Twin Peaks Weekender [...]

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Review: One-on-One Festival at BAC

The One-on-One Festival is all about you. In every nook and cranny at the Battersea Arts Centre, performances are happening with only you in mind, intimate experiences for an audience of one. It sounds like a daunting prospect, to be the centre of so much artistic attention, but it’s not at all. It’s a warm [...]

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Interview – David Gale / Dash Dash Dash: The Omnibus

I’m meeting David Gale outside the red post box by Costa Coffee in the middle of Waterloo Station.  The station is my choice but the meeting place his – “Let’s meet by the red pillar box outside Costa’s” he says somewhat conspiratorially “I’ll be the one wearing the long blue overcoat”.  Whilst this could be [...]

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1984 – Blind Summit Theatre

With multi-media now being a regular, if not expected, facet of the theatrical scene it is refreshing to see a company who are taking it back to basics. Puppet aficionados Blind Summit Theatre do just that with their low-tech version of George Orwell’s seminal 1984. Their consummate ‘here’s one I made earlier’ style makes for [...]

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