The Arts Review​

The Act of Existing by Croí Glan. Image uncredited ** Choreography gives way to durational performance art in Croí Glan's The Act of Existing, choreographed by Philip Connaughton. Its advertised fifty minutes running well over seventy. It's not the vomiting, the spewing, the spitting, or the drooling that's the problem. We've seen all that before. It's not even its playful cursing at the audience or watching the cast waterboarding each other with milk. No, the problem is its

Mercurial by Rosaleen Cox. Image Julia Salkin **** It could be a sexual role-play. It could be a Tinder date. It could be a Tinder sexual role-play date. Whatever it is, this one-night stand looks like it’s been stood up. Two anxious people arguing about sex whilst not actually having any. Meanwhile, an apocalyptic din regularly crashes from outside the bedroom. In Rosaleen Cox's sexually charged Mercurial, the charge might be weak, but a flurry of comic complications proves

Kafka's Doll by Theatre Lovett. Image Alisa Iakimanskaia **** They say never let truth get in the way of a good story. The same might be said of theatre. The story in question claiming that in 1924, seeing a young girl crying in a park having lost her doll, Franz Kafka wrote her a series of letters purportedly from the missing doll. Letters recounting adventures from the doll who had decided to travel the world. Kafka, approaching death, presented the young girl with a new do