Bryony Kimmings: Performance Art Princess

Written for Exeunt I am blowing bubbles. Disappointed at not being able to meet with Bryony Kimmings in person, I felt I needed to do some extra prep for our phone interview, to transport myself to a suitable space.  Hence the bubbles. It felt right, an appropriately flamboyant gesture. Bryony Kimmings is to live art [...]

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Ridiculusmus on Total Football and scrabbling around for national identity

Written for Exeunt David Woods and Jon Haynes – Ridiculusmus Two men dressed in suits stood in a suitcase filled with grass. Over the course of 70 minutes they managed to communicate the absurdity and frustration of the stymied Northern Ireland peace process without taking a step out of their turf box. Exuberant, sombre yet [...]

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Rajni Shah – Glorious

Rajni Shah has been creating and directing original performance work since 1999, with past projects including Hope (2009); Dinner with America (2008); give what you can, take what you need (2008); Altars of us all / speaking to strangers (2008) and Mr Quiver (2005). Her work ranges from large-scale performance installations to small solo interventions in public spaces.Glorious is the third in a trilogy of works [...]

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I tasted Sprint, and it’s playful.

Written for http://exeuntmagazine.com The fourteenth Sprint festival at Camden People’s Theatre kicks off with a taster evening which embodies the festival’s lively and playful essence – and while I’d be reluctant to call it a theme, an abundance of childish delight runs through the work in this opening showcase. The evening begins with Mamoru Iriguchi’s Projector/Conjector. Iriguchi has [...]

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Find the blue elephant; it is leading the way.

Joanna Lumley has now leapt into the Green Party fray after her admirable win for the Gurkhas.  I wish that this formidable opponent would also bring onto the agenda another much smaller, though clearly still important, issue in her repertoire.  Lumley is a patron of The Blue Elephant Theatre in Camberwell and surely the woman [...]

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