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The Night Flyer – Battersea Arts Centre, London

The Night Flyer - BAC

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 [...]

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Petrushka – Little Angel Theatre, London

petrushka

Writer: John Agard Directed by Steve Tiplady & Lyndie Wright Reviewer: Honour Bayes Petrushka is a puppet with no strings whose tale of daring do has been given a vibrant make-over at The Little Angel Theatre. With a delicate piano score by Stravinsky and sweetly rhyming language by John Agard the quality of this work [...]

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The Brain – Little Angel Theatre, London

Writers: Inkfish Reviewer: Honour Bayes To unpick anyone’s brain would be a complicated matter, but to unpick Albert Einstein’s seems like an impossible task. It is one that USA based Inkfish have undertaken admirably in their new piece The Brain. A cacophony of projections, live and recorded film, puppetry and toy trains, it is a [...]

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To Have or Not To Have – The Little Angel Theatre

Writer: TamTam Reviewer: Honour Bayes A pair of pliers and a mole trap are fighting on a table top desert in toy castles. Put like that To Have or Not To Have all sounds rather childish but actually it’s incredibly poignant and beautiful. Set within an elegant soundscape which flies from Texas sunrises to Arabian [...]

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