Manipulate
The Guardian 31 January 2022 No single word can encapsulate Manipulate. The festival’s mix of animation, physical theatre and puppetry defies easy categorisation. The organisation itself opts for “visually led…
Sleeping Beauty
The Guardian 5 December 2021 After what happened this year, you could have forgiven the team behind the King’s panto if they had had a wobble. The death of Andy…
Cinderella
The Guardian, 28 November 2021 The modern adapter of Cinderella is faced with two questions. How to give agency to a central character who is subject not only to the…
Life Is a Dream
The Guardian 3 November 2021 Segismundo has just woken up in a palace, having spent his life holed up in a tower. In Pedro Calderón’s extraordinary Spanish golden age drama,…
The Tempest
The Guardian 1 November 2021 The short-term forecast is for a storm – or maybe a squally shower – of Cop26-inspired Tempests. On 7 November, BBC Radio 3 is fielding…
The Covid Requiem
The Guardian 17 September 2021 We’ve read about it in the papers. We’ve seen it analysed on TV. We’ve chatted about it in Zoom meetings. But it’s only now, after…
Wings Around Dundee
The Guardian 10 September 2021 For the seagulls, the locked-down streets of Dundee offer slim pickings. They’re lucky to find a bin bag, never mind a discarded takeaway. No wonder…
This Is Paradise
The Guardian 26 August 2021 Kate Regan is a woman defined by the men in her life. There’s her gentle old Belfast dad, disappointed by the company she keeps, there’s…