The Benefits of Doubt (or The Unimportance of Being Honest)

Over the past half-century, experimental theatre has been driven by the realities of performance and the performance of realities. From the ...

Review: The Last Hour, BAC Burst Festival

Written for Culture Wars Time, clearly, is of the essence. With an hour designated as final, only a single rotation remains and it’s already...

Review: The Post Show Party Show, BAC Burst Festival

Written for Culture Wars Had the hills never been alive with the sound of music, Michael Pinchbeck would not have come to be. At least, Mic...

Review: The Poof Downstairs, BAC Burst Festival

Written for Culture Wars John Haynes is apologising. Sadly, thanks to family commitments, his fellow performer Charles N.I. Middleton has ha...

Review: Watch Me Fall, BAC Burst Festival

Written for Culture Wars In miniaturizing the super-size, Action Hero present a very British perspective on American culture. Just as A Wes...

Review: The Bagwell in Me, BAC Burst Festival

Written for Culture Wars It turns out that if there is another way, nobody told Ann Liv Young. On the basis of her showings at Burst, one c...

Review: Home of the Wriggler, BAC Burst Festival

Written for Culture Wars Its component parts exploded and dissected like an Airfix diagram, an image of a machine – perhaps an engine – loo...

Review: Solo, BAC Burst Festival

Written for Culture Wars So post-feminist is Ann Liv Young’s Solo that you can’t actually tell whether it sides with or against feminism. Ce...