17th May 2016 Volker Gerling is a well-travelled man An unassuming fellow, he still radiates the self-assurance of someone who has lived a life of great exploits. His eyes betraying a deeper understanding (drawn from over 3,500km walking around Germany no doubt)… Continue Reading
16th May 2016 If anyone would have suggested I’d enjoy spending an hour of my evening watching two 40 something year old men jumping about in DIY costumes, singing punk rock tunes created on children’s toys while sculpting with chewed… Continue Reading
13th May 2016 (Photo by Zoe Manders) The prospect of re-enacting 17th century poet John Milton’s 10,000 line epic Paradise Lost via the medium of 75 minutes of dance based theatre involving a sole actor taking up the role of… Continue Reading
12th May 2016 When looking for foundation pieces for a new play, the combination of a silent disco, a whole lot of psychedelia and a decadent plot by a teenage Russian literary giant wouldn’t be the most obvious of starting points… Continue Reading
I’m going to admit this from the off – I don’t think I have the knowledge of or vocabulary to describe the mechanics of music performance to do the masterful John Metcalfe justice in this review. What I will say is… Continue Reading
12th May 2016 For his show The Ted Bundy Project at Mayfest 2015, performer Greg Wohead interrogated the public’s demand for graphic content, whether it be extreme pornography, violence or the explicit confession tapes of the show’s protagonist. Wohead trod a… Continue Reading
12th May 2016 David Guetta – ‘This One’s For You’ Like a toaster in a bathtub or Kev Livingstone at a Bar Mitzvah, music and football are surely two things that expound the Kipling idiom “never the twain shall meet”;… Continue Reading
7th May 2016 Compared to the most famous of the late, great musicians who have the eternal misfortune of membership to the now infamous 27 Club, fairly little seems to be widely known about Janis Joplin. While the passing of… Continue Reading