Thoughts on In Eldersfield Chapter 1: Elegy for Paul Dirac, SPILL FESTIVAL

“In Eldersfield is a decade-long, ten chapter cycle of works all for the twentieth century – to which we are no longer beholden, but to whic...

Review: I guess if the stage exploded, SPILL Festival

Written for Culture Wars Slyvia Rimat’s attempt to create an absolutely unforgettable performance is more interesting conceptually than it i...

Review: On the Concept of the Face, SPILL Festival

Written for Culture Wars An old man repeatedly losing control of his bowels in front of a vast portrait of Christ, which eventually ‘cries’ ...

Review: Do What Thou Wilt, SPILL Festival

Written for Culture Wars About sixty of us have just watched a nude man, drenched in some sort of bitumen-like substance, wrenched upwards t...

Review: datamatics [ver 2.0], SPILL Festival

Written for Culture Wars It feels, at times, like being tasered. The fierce walls of sound – some low and heavy blows, others high, stabbing...

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: Void Story, Soho Theatre

Written for What's on Stage After twenty-five years of fiery protest against narrative, fracturing and fragmenting it through repetition...

Review: Prototypes, Soho Theatre

Written for Culture Wars Few social groups receive such gentle stigmatization as railway enthusiasts. Stereotypically, they are white men in...

Once and For All We're Going to Tell You / That Night Follows Day

Rarely have two pieces of theatre existed so tightly entwined as That Night Follows Day and Once and For All We’re Going to Tell You Who We...

Review: Inferno, Barbican Centre

Written for Culture Wars "The inferno of the living is not something that will be: if there is one. It is what is already there, the in...

SPILL festival

What with the launch of the SPILL festival last week, it seems appropriate to flag up the accompanying blog - SPILL: Overspill . Its the bra...