Reading from his debut book Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, Max Porter said it was too hot in the bejewelled Spiegeltent surroundings to get in to the really heavy stuff – as if the extracts he delivered with such brave force were easy words.
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Normally to be found in their basement bar in London’s Broadway Market, this jazzy, swinging seven-piece hit the Spiegeltent for just one night.
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This IOU Theatre piece definitively gives
a new perspective on life: for most of the show the audience are watching from
the back of an open-top bus.
The Spiegeltent is an other-worldly venue, and this Hocus Pocus and Gossamer Thread co-production, Night Magic, seeks to lift the veil and take you to the other side.
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One of the delights of live theatre is feeling an audience react.
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Eleven stories scattered across the battered remains of an old factory are yours to explore in this creative and surprising event from the Writers’ Centre Norwich.
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The Bard of Barking opened this sold-out gig with a classic Bragg number, the Milkman of Human Kindness, and the crowd never stopped drinking it up
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This is circus, but with a Spiegeltent twist: a naked man straining against cling film before rolling over giant blue balls; a dancer twisting and flexing on the floor like a woman with zombie limbs that leaves you feeling like you’ve been to a chiropractor.
Explore MoreLooking like they had been transported straight from a 1930s tea dance, the FB Pocket Orchestra brought the sounds of the early 20th century back to the Spiegeltent – the sort of music that would have reverberated around its mirrored walls at its creation.
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It is mentioned repeatedly during this new play that quantum biology – the science peg the story hangs on – is so complicated that if you think you understand it, you really don’t.
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There are times when the Spiegeltent tent tingles: listening and watching to Lera Lynn was one of those times.
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Just one week on from Eurovision, how much thirst would Norfolk have for French electro-pop act Broken Back?
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Billed as an exploration of migration, the nature of belonging, and the fleeting nature of our surroundings, this unusual production took the audience from the auditorium of Epic Studios through impromptu performances spaces in Anglia Square, St Augustine’s, and the surrounding streets.
Explore MoreNorfolk can claim two of the most important female literary figures in the country – but they are linked by more than just their gender.
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When it comes to artifice, how much more fake can you get than a review of a show about lying?
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