Performance & Physical
Hans Was Heiri/Zimmermann & de Perrot, Barbican - review
Things just won
National Theatre Wales to go gigging with Gruff Rhys
The show Praxis Makes Perfect will open in May in a secret location in Cardiff and then pop up at music festivals around UK They have staged Aeschylus in the Brecon Beacons , and transformed the whole of the town of Port Talbot into the scene of Christ'
les ballets C de la B, Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
The Old King shows a man reduced to wordlessness, fighting to communicate or connect with an audience. Dancer Romeu Runa flails about, putting himself through gruelling tasks.
Mini-review - Fuerzabruta - Roundhouse
Well, it's the new year, and time for me to try a few new things, in this case letting a friend pick out a show for me. The show in point was Fuerzabruta at the Roundhouse, and I hadn't managed to find out much about it beforehand other than it was physic
Les Hommes Vides, Soho Theatre, London
Soho Theatre, London: The second show by Invisible Thread - the new puppet company from Faulty Optic's Liz Walker - is a simpler, more humorous affair than her previous work. There is none of the trademark use of live video-feed or bizarre wheels and pul
The Heads, Soho Theatre, London
Soho Theatre, London: Acclaimed puppetry company Blind Summit included an ingenious segment in its previous show, The Table, in which a series of disembodied faces floated between three picture frames. As a short vignette, it was beautiful and distractin
London International Mime Festival: Popcorn Machine, Purcell Room; The Cardinals, Roundhouse, review
Dominic Cavendish finds two smaller shows at the London International Mime Festival to be a mixed back.