One-on-One Festival of intimate theatre
I talk to BAC’s joint artistic director David Jubb about the venue’s One-on-One Festival, the first ever of intimate theatre which plays to audiences of one person at a time, and then with practitioners Emma Benson (You Me Now) and Sheila Ghelani (Nurse Knows Best).
One-on-One Festival
One-on-one is collaboration. It’s exchange. It’s intimacy. It’s two people tied back to back, scaling the inside of a chimney: something neither one could do alone.
Plus One Podcast: The Human Computer
In which I discuss Will Adamsdale’s transformation into The Human Computer at Battersea Arts Centre with Stage Manager and Plus One Podcast alumna Fran Gardiner.
The Human Computer
Will Adamsdale is 36, and didn’t send his first email until the year 2005. The Human Computer is both a confession and a defence of his IT incompetence.
Sporadical
There’s cardboard lightning! Naked puppets! Peril! A wedding dress that doubles as a parachute! Destined love! There’s so much to enjoy that it’s a wrench, once it’s all over, to exit the bar and relinquish your briefly assumed Welles-Ferry name.
The Poof Downstairs
The Poof Downstairs hinges on a metatheatrical conceit and cannot be effectively reviewed unless said conceit is revealed – regrettably deadening future audiences’ feelings of whimsical bafflement, but that’s theatre criticism for you.
Return
A charitable movie reviewer might describe Return as “beautifully shot”. It’s one of those low-budget British films so beloved of awards committees, in which nothing very much happens but every frame is painstakingly composed, every close-up and gradual fade-through-black marinaded in a rich sense of atmosphere and place.
Plus One Podcast: Jiggery Pokery
In which I discuss Amanda Lawrence in Jiggery Pokery: An Homage to Charles Hawtrey at Battersea Arts Centre, with writer-director Poppy Corbett.
Jiggery Pokery: A Homage to Charles Hawtrey
Jiggery Pokery is a reminder of just how much can be achieved onstage through the craft of a single talented performer.
Belt Up, Tim Crouch and breach of contract
Does Crouch’s The Author breach its own unspoken actor/audience contract?
