Performance & Physical
Gruff Rhys: my musical take on the communist Forrest Gump
In March 1972, the badly mutilated body of a 46-year-old man was found at the foot of a power mast outside Milan, having apparently died when the explosives he was carrying detonated prematurely.
Alfred Hickling | The Guardian
The Contents of a House - review
Step through the door of Brighton's Preston Manor and you step into a lost world.
Lyn Gardner | The Guardian
The Ghost Hunter
If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood, the ghost hunters won’t even need calling. They’ll already be there, herding tourists into dank corners and peddling their hokum for a fiver a pop.
Matt Trueman | Time Out
The Ghost Hunter – Old Red Lion Theatre
The intimate setting of the Old Red Lion Theatre is the perfect place to sit, drink and listen to some ghost stories.
This one hour show is hosted by Dick, a ghost tour guide operating in York and he has a great story to tell the crowd. It is...
Artswrap | Emma Clarendon
Brighton Festival: We're Gonna Die, Studio Theatre, Brighton Dome, Brighton
A cross between a live music gig and a Lena Dunham-esque monologue, this confessional piece from the New York-based Young Jean Lee's Theater Company has the hip format to match its confrontational title.
Bella Todd | The Stage
The Girl With No Heart, The Warren, Brighton Fringe
Have the galloping, whinnying heroes of War Horse inspired a new generation of theatre-makers?
Alice Jones | The Independent
Brighton Festival: The Contents of a House, Preston Manor, Brighton
"You'll die in hospital with wires all over you," says Peter Reder, looking us each in the eye as we stand around a four-poster in the bedroom where Lady Ellen Stanford was born and died.
Bella Todd | The Stage
HighTide Festival: Pastoral/Moth/Neighbors, Various venues, Halesworth, Suffolk
The HighTide Festival, held in a picturesque corner of Suffolk, is now in its seventh year.
Natasha Tripney | The Stage
HighTide Festival, Halesworth, Suffolk, review
Each May, The Cut theatre complex in Halesworth, Suffolk, plays host to the best and brightest up-and-coming playwrights for the HighTide Festival.
Eve Stebbing | Telegraph
Nineveh, Riverside Studios, London
"Lights up (fade) - three soldiers from three countries are sitting in the belly of a whale." So begins Nineveh, Theatre Temoin's allegorical and moving drama about ex-combatants and their search for redemption.
Lauren Paxman | The Stage