Review: Sight is the Sense That Dying People Lose First, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars Tim Etchells is a man who could bore for Britain. Boring is not always a bad thing. Jim Fletcher could make the shi...

Review: The Good Neighbour, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars A friend told me recently about David Eagleman’s Sum , as a trade for my recommendation of Italo Calvino’s Invisibl...

Review: Motor Vehicle Sundown, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars The passenger seat of a Skoda Fabia is an unlikely place to realise you’re in the same boat as Willy Loman. However...

Review: Brand New Ancients, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars Spoken word rarely really fires me up. I can sit alongside it perfectly happily and leave, at the end, with an appr...

Review: We Hope That You're Happy (Why Would We Lie?), Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Time Out Do a little dance. Chug another Bud. Get down about Haitian earthquakes, Indonesian tsunamis and starving Africans. Tha...

Review: Paper Cinema's The Odyssey, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars As John Torode and Gregg Wallace might say: poetry doesn’t get more epic than this. Homer’s The Odyssey , a vast tr...

Review: Jimmy Stewart, an Anthropologist from Mars, Analyses Love and Happiness in Humans (and Rabbits), Battersea Arts Centre

Jimmy Stewart, that handsome Hitchcockian everyman, is a Martian. At least, that’s what Tassos Stevens would have us believe in this intrigu...

Fading Smiles - A Response to the One on One Festival at BAC

Written for Culture Wars The word ‘immersive’ makes me think of bathtime. More specifically, it makes me think of the perfect bath. The sort...

Review: A Game of You, One on One Festival at BAC

If Internal presents you with a distorting fairground mirror, A Game of You walks you inside an infinity triangle. Everywhere you look the...

Response: I Vow to Thee, One on One Festival at BAC

One of the best features of work that treats its audience on an individual basis is the manner in which it can have a lingering and longstan...

Response: Soldiers' Song, One on One Festival at BAC

Step into the inauspicious crate in the foyer of the Battersea Arts Centre and you’re confronted with a quiet dilemma: to sing or to listen....

Response: Rendez-Vous, One on One Festival at BAC

Villanella and Hanneke Paauwe have forgotten that a gentle tug at our heartstrings is far more effective than an attempt to induce a full-on...

Response: A Little Bit of Something Beautfiul, One on One Festival at BAC

Barnaby Stone proves that you don’t need to prod, poke and stroke to physically engage an audience member in this exquisitely crafted littl...

Response: Wonder Nurse, One on One Festival at BAC

What strikes me most about Wonder Nurse is that it is, in a surprisingly traditional manner, a comedy. Even though we are involved in a sit...

Review: One on One Festival, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Time Out Short of shelling out a fortune to spend a fortnight exploring every nook and cranny of the Battersea Arts Centre, ther...

Response: Just For A Moment, One on One Festival at BAC

Three Blind Mice are a company born out of the Battersea Arts Centre’s YPT (Young Persons’ Theatre) scheme. Just For a Moment, therefore, ou...

Response: Electric, One on One Festival at BAC

Professor Ray Lee has the air of a GP carrying out some form of check up. He peers over his rectangular glasses and looks directly, deeply i...

Response: Observation Deck, One on One Festival at BAC

Observation Deck is not so much ‘one on one’ as ‘on one’s own’. In a back room of the BAC, there is a contraption conceived and designed by...

Response: Folk in a Box, One on One Festival at BAC

Perhaps more than any other piece at the festival, Folk in a Box is a performance in the traditional sense. It involves watching a performa...

Review: The Smile Off Your Face, One on One Festival at BAC

Another day, another wheelchair rickshaw ride... Ontroerend Goed’s The Smile Off Your Face seems the most appropriate place to start my jou...