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Director: Emma Rice Reviewer: Toni Stott-Rates The Public Reviews Rating: Why are folktales so threaded through the fabric of human existence that they endure and are recognisable in all their different forms, all their altered manifestations? Whimsical and dark, practical and honest these stories are to people that listen and those that tell them a way of [...]

Devised and Performed by: 1927 Reviewer: Alexei Edwards The Public Reviews Rating: I met this production with a degree of innocence and a sense of stepping into the unknown. I conducted a modicum of research on 1927 and was met with a plethora of positive reviews concerning their first, award winning production, Between the Devil and the [...]

Reviewer – Alex Millar The Public Reviews Rating: Everything about this experience is damn near perfect, from the second you walk in to the foyer receive your show list, map & cupcake; to the moment you leave finding every experience to be hopeful, inquisitive and childlike. I left with my heart swelling and an impish grin. Why then [...]

Writer/Director: Will Adamsdale Reviewer: Jemma Bicknell & Rick Grant The Public Reviews Rating: First assembled in 2006, Will Adamsdale’s The Human Computer enjoyed a run at the Edinburgh Fringe the following year, and here returns to the Battersea Arts Centre for a second showing. Adamsdale’s theatrical resume is extensive, including a Perrier award for his one man show, [...]

Written and Directed by Inspector Sands Reviewer: Alex Millar The Public Reviews Rating: This performance rather lives up to the tile of the show and only scratches at the surface of it’s ‘lets look at modern life’ ideas. That said there are more than enough physically dexterous and show stealing moments from all 3 performers to keep you [...]

Devised/Performed by: Polarbear Reviewer: Honour Bayes The Public Reviews Rating: Whilst the terrain of performance poet Polarbear is a decidedly urban one of cool blue surroundings and computerised flickering descriptions, it is in many ways similar to the simple, barren beauty of the natural ice peaks that play home to his majestic animal namesake. An atmosphere of epic [...]

Created by: Jon Haynes Reviewer: Jeffrey Mayhew The Public Reviews Rating: “When Jeremy moves back into his parents’ home he finds little has changed. He is still dominated by a nagging mother, and bewildered by a distant father who dreams of going fishing. In the conflict that follows Jeremy becomes the focus of his parents’ struggle for supremacy.” [...]

Creator & Illustrator: Nic Rawlings Music: Kieron Maguire Reviewer: Ian Foster Coming back to the Battersea Arts Centre after selling out a run in Autumn last year, The Night Flyer is a show created by the Paper Cinema. And created is the right word as the show features pen-and-ink drawn puppets and scenes which are [...]