Birmingham City Council this week released news of its impending funding cuts and surprise, surprise! …. the independent contemporary arts get the slash. Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Fierce, Big Brum, Women & Theatre and Stan’s Cafe….and more (link to Birmingham Post article) Here’s something to cheer us up through all the current gloom-mongering. A theatre(ish) […]

45 today and happy. one of the toughest assignments came to fruition last night. The Bristol Uni Dept. of Theatre & Film Studies ‘Performance 2’ project is now realised. A devised theatre piece collated from verbatim texts, transcribed from interviews sourced from nights out in the City: The streets, the pubs and clubs. Rakes For […]

A huge thank you to everyone – artists and audience alike – who made it to the Thanksgiving Day PILOT on thursday. I’m still cold turkeying from it. The evening embraced everything that makes Pilot such a stimulating event; from the outrageously fun to the downright terrifying. I’d like to encourage anyone who was there […]

PILOT, the West Midlands’ playground for experimental theatre, returns this Thursday with a fresh crop of artists providing Thanksgiving Day treats. Though take note: This will be a turkey-free zone! November’s PILOT presents a wealth of ideas and theatrical talent from six companies from the West Midlands and beyond. Variously reflective, comic and spectacular, these […]

Today sees the release of a movie with all the ingredients for greatness, with the cream of British film-acting talent pitched up alongside comedy gold-dust. Unfortunately, pre-release reviews of Burke & Hare have not been entirely complimentary, but how fine to see Serkis paired up with Pegg. And lest it be forgotten from whence they […]