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This esteemed collective from the northern French city of Lille pushes the limits of physical ability and brings poetry to the body in motion with daring, gasp-inducing stunts. The 22 acrobats will make your jaw drop in wonder as they catapult each other through the air or create multi-storey human towers of power.
Rarely does a show with so many players capture the fundamental essence of human relationships, but this one has it in the bag. A diverse tale of individual and collective histories, a living tapestry for all who behold it, and one of those 'all' should be you.
Testoni knows stories are anything but silly. She gives a voice and a face to a Victorian-era girl who is graceful and fierce, young in her curiosity, but wise in her insight.
I'm always impressed when small theatre shows transcend their limitations through an artful use of performance, light and sound. Timothy Green's Night Sweats is such a show.
Cardboard Kingdom is the most heartfelt wakeup call imaginable. The passion on display in all facets of the play is the kind that made me fall in love with theatre in the first place.
Less Light is a deeply unique theater experience.
This is the story of a girl... who loved stories but didn't like her own world! Written and directed by Scott McArdle and embodied by the magnificent team at Second Chance Theatre, with musical prodigy Georgina Cramond on keys, there is never a dull moment in Josephine!
Banned is a thought provoking piece of work that deftly examines a myriad of social issues in a sensitive and nuanced yet entertaining manner.
One Punch Wonder is a timely exploration of what it means to be a man, in a year which has already been defined by the impact of the murky depths of the male psyche.
You'll leave laughing, weeping, with a memory to hold in the corner of your ribcage forever.
It harnesses the honest power of poetry, although each show is tailored for an audience there is an authentic energy to every word uttered in this show. For anyone who has been in love, out of love or even speculated the concept, there is something here for you.
This two-person play can only be described as an experience. What they brought was a boundary-pushing, uproariously funny night of dark slapstick comedy at its finest.
A visceral and rollercoaster-esque experience, this show will grab you by your memory and pull you down the rabbit-hole. It asks you to become all ears for just an hour; sit forward, and listen up.
Minus One Sister bears the mark of excellent theatre and I simply cannot stop thinking about it.
What do you get when you mash a story of teen angst, candy shops and vampires together? The answer may just lie with Jack Thorne’s stage adaptation of Swedish novelist John Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In
Once We Lived Here is a timeless tragicomedy that makes its audience alternate between laughing and crying, sometimes both at the same time. The cast delivered strong characters all round with an authenticity that is hard to find in such dramatised and musical theatre.
A tale of resilience packed with tongue in cheek humour, I Am My Own Wife has a lot to teach people of all ages about courage, friendship and approaching life with a load of grit.
Hypatia uses the suffering of the past to elucidate the plights of the present. Perhaps what was most memorable about Liz Newell’s Hypatia was the constant feeling of heart-pounding anticipation.
At the hands of master craftsman and director Scott McArdle, a transformation occurs: the story of the Soviet space race goes from a strong script, eloquent and thought provoking but still a mere script, into the play embodied by five superb actors and a genius sound guy at the Blue Room Theatre this month. This feat is comparable to the launching of a man into space, just as worthy of applause but far more successful.
We were lucky enough to catch a glimpse into next year’s season at the 2018 Season Launch for the Black Swan Theatre Company- one which promises to be dynamic, challenging and altogether as exciting and explosive as this year.
