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Fringe theatre blog - week two

Posted 4.06 pm Mon Jun 29 by Andrew Haydon

This week there’s the rare chance to see some of French director/choreographer/puppeteer Giséle Vienne’s work. Her collaboration with Dennis Cooper and Peter Rehberg, 'Jerk', is on at the South London Gallery from the 1st to the 3rd. It has been memorably described by theatremaker extraordinaire Chris Goode as 'a lot of puppets fist-fucking each other and the sound effects are pretty funny, and then there's a lot of stabbing and the sound effects aren't so funny after that.'

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Fringe theatre roundup - week one

Posted 2.04 pm Fri Jun 19 by Andrew Haydon

Hello, and welcome to the new Time Out fringe theatre blog.  It may seem perverse for a listings magazine to have an exclusively online blog offering yet more previews/reviews of forthcoming/ongoing show. The USP here is that, being the on the internet, we’re able to look at one-off performances and flag up more off-the-beaten-track stuff.

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An audience of one: how theatre just got personal

Posted 2.18 pm Wed Jun 17 by Bella Todd

Last month's BURST festival was the second time I'd found myself locked into a room of the BAC with only an actor for company. The first was during Punchdrunk's now semi-legendary, free-roaming promenade experience 'The Mask Of The Red Death'. It was a work that encouraged the audience to part with companions and seek out personal encounters. But I wasn't expecting, when I wandered into the 'Apothecary', to hear the door close behind me and feel myself pushed up against the back wall by an actress in a blood stained pinny who looked only marginally less weirded out by the intimacy of the encounter than I felt.

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CAROLINE McGINN
/THEATRE EDITOR

Caroline is currently Theatre editor of Time Out, and has previously written about theatre, books and contemporary culture for Time Out, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Times and the Times Literary Supplement.

ANDREW HAYDON

Andrew Haydon is a freelance theatre critic. He writes regularly for Time Out, the Guardian online and has his own blog Postcards from the Gods. He has also had reviews published in German, Polish, Lithuanian and Czech.