Tag Archives: BAC

I’m a Phoenix, Bitch

Battersea Arts Centre (BAC), London ****
Review: by Carole Woddis of performance seen Oct 10, 2017:

© Christa Holka, Bryony Kimmings, turning life into Art and horror story into a Grim Fairy Tale...

© Christa Holka, Bryony Kimmings, turning life into Art and horror story into a Grim Fairy Tale…

The last time I saw Bryony Kimmings, it was at Soho in 2015. She was appearing in a show with her then partner, Tim. Fake It `Til You Make It was the story of Tim’s journey through depression and their joint coming to terms with it – a sort of `coming out’ with the message that’s it’s okay for a man to say he’s suffering from depression. It doesn’t take away his masculinity. Continue reading

Missing

Battersea Arts Centre, (BAC), London ****

© Robert Golden, Anna Finkel (mother)  as remembered by her daughter, Lily.

© Robert Golden, Anna Finkel (mother) as remembered by her daughter, Lily.

I have a recollection of first seeing Gecko and Taylor’s Dummies, their first show, originally in Edinburgh. But then again, I may be mistaken because my memory of that performance, nearly 15 years ago, contains images of masks and a sense of seeing something so original the echo of it stayed with me a very long time. Continue reading

Heads Up

Battersea Arts Centre, London (****) then touring

© Niall Walker, Kieran Hurley

© Niall Walker, Kieran Hurley

Taken a little time to get here but Kieran Hurley’s 2016 Edinburgh Fringe hit (part of their Made in Scotland showcase 2016) absolutely nails the zeitgeist of our times. Continue reading

Chilcot

Battersea Arts Centre, London (****)

© Joe Twigg, Chilcot Enquiry in session

© Joe Twigg, Chilcot Enquiry in session

With The Chilcot Report to be published in just over a month’s time, Lung Theatre have got in early with this tribunal staged event a la Nick Kent’s Tricycle hearings. Continue reading

Every One

Battersea Arts Centre, London (****)

© Richard Davenport, Angela Clerkin (Mary), Michael Fenton Stevens (Joe)

© Richard Davenport, Angela Clerkin (Mary), Michael Fenton Stevens (Joe)

A long time ago, Jo Clifford, then known as John Clifford became a stalwart of Scottish theatre. Now she has over 70 titles to her name – original plays, translations from the classics, opera libretti. Continue reading