Image Credit: Louise Orwin, photographed by Frederick Wilkinson. Louise Orwin has never been one to play it safe. Known for work that pushes at the edges of performance, power, and audience complicity, she’s built a reputation for asking difficult questions…
Image Credit: Tamm Reynolds as Midgitte Bardot, photographed by Holly Revell. There’s a through-line in Tamm Reynolds’ work that starts early – somewhere between Gloucestershire and a Drama Club stage, aged nine, playing Clarence the Seahorse in The Water Babies,…
Image Credit: Daphna Attias (left) and Terry O’Donovan (right), Co-Artistic Directors of Dante or Die. For two decades, Daphna Attias and Terry O’Donovan have been reshaping how theatre lives in the world. Their paths into performance began far apart –…
Image Credit: Photo of Leyla Nazli by Olivia Harris. From the moment a five-minute piece of political visual theatre stopped her in her tracks at the age of ten, Leyla Nazli’s path was set. That early spark – later intensified…
Image credit: Louise Mothersole (left) and Becca Biscuit (right) photographed by Christa Holka. For more than a decade, Becca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole have stood side-by-side as Sh!t Theatre: best friends, artistic conspirators, political excavators, and proud devotees of The…
Image credit: Owen (left) and Tom (right), the early years. From a makeshift “TV studio” in the back room of a village pantomime to the controlled-chaos brilliance of The Christmas Thing, Tom Clarkson and Owen Visser have spent a lifetime…
Image Credit: Photo of Alan Souza Alan Souza arrives at the Marylebone Theatre this December with Daniel’s Husband, the UK premiere of Michael McKeever’s acclaimed play – a deeply human story wrestling with love, commitment, and the convictions that anchor…
Image description: Black Power Desk production shot. Photo by Helen Murray London multi-hyphenate Urielle Klein-Mekongo returns with swagger: the writer-performer behind Yvette now turns historian-DJ, spinning a fearless new Black British musical that thumps with lovers rock, rap, soul and…
Image: Cardboard Citizens, photo by Ike Laseiende. Ensemble Festival returns to London’s Royal Docks on the 20 & 21 July. Produced by East London arts development organisation Certain Blacks, Ensemble once again presents an action-packed programme of circus, street theatre,…
Image: Kris Nelson, Artistic Director, LIFT. Photo by Tyler Kelley.
LIFT 2024 will take you on journeys that are deep and personal. It’s a festival that will take your breath away, spark your mind and rev your imagination. There’s adrenaline too. It’s international theatre for your gut.