Review: L'Autre, Southbank Centre

Written for Culture Wars For all its stylish serenity, L’Autre has all the substance of a mirage in the desert. It’s the sort of non-verbal...

Review: Mundo Paralelo, Southbank Centre

Written for Culture Wars Mundo Paralelo , a collaboration between NoFitState Circus, National Theatre Wales and Théâtre Tattoo, purports to ...

Review: L'immediat, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars A woman gets home. She puts her keys into the front door. It crumples into a heap of wooden slats. Unphased, she go...

Review: Haptic & Holistic Strata, Linbury Studio

Written for Culture Wars Migraine-inducing, heart-palpitating, epilepsy-triggering, ball-dropping, but above all, extraordinary, Hiroaki Ume...

Review: Pss Pss, Southbank Centre

Written for Culture Wars A good prop can be the making of a clown. So, when I say that a stepladder is the star of Pss Pss , I mean no sligh...

Review: The Art of Dying, Southbank Centre

Written for Culture Wars Hell might just be a mediocre clown show seen from an appreciative audience and clowning doesn’t come much more med...

Review: Hilum, ICA

Written for Culture Wars To air one’s dirty laundry is, of course, to clean the skeletons from one’s closet, but washing machines and osteol...

Review: Sans Objet, Southbank Centre

Written for Culture Wars Place any mechanized object on the stage and you immediately beg questions about the nature of performance. That Sa...

Review: Gobo. Digital Glossary, ICA Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Rehearsal room philosophizing can be tricky. With the shared language and history of a process, particularly with d...

Review: Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars Productivity must be rather difficult when your place of work is a metaphor, so spare a thought of the two pen-push...

Review: La Maldicion de Poe, Southbank Centre

Written for Culture Wars Edgar Allen Poe’s writing chills. His most famous images – the immovable Raven that moves from oddity to irritant ...

Review: Until Now, Purcell Rooms

Written for Culture Wars If girls are made of sugar and spice and all things nice, those of UK circus trio mimbre are oversweet and undersea...

Review: Contigo, Linbury Studio

Written for Culture Wars In September 2003, Channel 4 broadcast a documentary called Jump London that transformed the capital into a adventu...

Review: Pan-Pot, Queen Elizabeth Hall

Written for Culture Wars The festival brochure has already described Pan-Pot as “a fireworks display of brilliant juggling.” There’s not mu...

Review: The Mill, Linbury Studio

Written for Culture Wars You expect a certain showy bravado of circus, as if half the performance is about showing off specialist skills. Sh...

Review: USSR Was Here, ICA

Written for Culture Wars On and on rolls this conveyor belt of horrors; all more or less human in form, but their humanity is so distorted t...

Review: Eschet, Southbank Centre

Written for Culture Wars Death is always present in the puppets of Etgar Theatre. They are immaterial waifs: empty, trailing shirts that flo...

Review: Öper Öpis, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars From a selection of building blocks scattered around the stage, Martin Zimmerman carefully constructs a makeshift c...

Review: L'Ecume de l'Air, Barbican Pit

Written for Culture Wars There’s no doubt that Martin Schwietzke can juggle. In L’Ecume de l’Air (literally: The Foam of The Air) handfuls...

Review: Circus Klezmer, London International Mime Festival 09

Written for Culture Wars It begins in the queue. Adrian Schvarzstein’s Village Idiot has dived into the ladies toilets and is now pulling wo...