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 Coming Storm, Battersea Arts Centre

Written for Culture Wars The Coming Storm starts on solid ground, with the sort of list that Forced Entertainment can keep up for the best ...

Assorted thoughts on Quizoola

A great deal has been written about Quizoola , Forced Entertainment’s epic game of Q&A first performed sixteen years ago. Step into what...

The Quiet Volume, Hackney Central Library

Written for Culture Wars Tim Etchells and Ant Hampton’s The Quiet Volume strikes me as the best piece of audio-based autoteatro to date. It...

Instructions for Audience Transformation

I came across the following in a book I've just started and thought it worth sharing. It's an extract from Filippo Tommaso Marinetti...

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...

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...

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...

Happy Pig's Ear

My parents welcomed in 2009 from a train carriage somewhere between Vauxhall and Clapham Junction. Having attempted to watch the fireworks a...

Just Dandy

Like Maxie Szalwinska , I spent Saturday afternoon at The Riverside indulging in a spot of Peachy Coochy, a mischievous event led by the imp...

One of life's brighter days

I have an interview with Tim Etchells in The Stage this week. Haven't seen it yet, but when I do I'll post it up here - should be ...