Welcome to Borduria, the country inhabiting all fictional characters. Goldilocks lives in Northern Borduria but the portal in a basement of the brutalist Balfron tower in East London leads straight to the grim South where the unscrupulous and scheming Macbeths reside. Alongside these fictional characters live the Bordurian citizens who show the spatially shifted visitors […]
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The Crucible at the Old Vic
Mysterious and shrouded in fog, a group of women perform a solemn death dance around empty chairs – an eerie foresight into the fate of a community that will be decimated by a relentless witch hunt. As an opening it’s tender, quiet and simple, but also quite unlike the high-octane shout matches that dominate the […]
Cheek by Jowl’s Ubu Roi
This play, it farts, it licks, it spits. Cheek by Jowl’s hugely successful Ubu Roi returns to the Barbican in all its decadence-smashing scrutiny. An adolescent boy with a camera pans over dead meat and the extreme close-up is projected on the crème walls of a pristine dining room. A middle-aged couple swoops on stage […]
The Roof at Lift 2014
Someday you will die. And you can’t escape. So, you go out and find stuff. You attach meaning to the stuff. You keep the stuff. You need more stuff. You meet people. You get to know them. They’re weird. You like them. You give them your stuff or share it with them. You have a […]