wed 24/09/2025

physical theatre

Pajama Men, Soho Theatre

'Pajama Men': Mark Chavez and Shenoah Allen create a rich fantasia dressed in their jimjams

We must be on the night train, as there's something crazily dreamlike about the Pajama Men's mercurial railroad fantasy, The Last Stand to Reason, which was a runaway Edinburgh Fringe hit last year and is now, deservedly, back at Soho by popular...

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Les 7 Doigts, Peacock Theatre/ Cie Deborah Colker, touring

As we look on the strictly dieting future that undoubtedly waits for the more esoteric arts after Thursday’s election, it’s evident that the dance landscape has already been blighted - and self-blighted, at that. Somewhere in the past few years a...

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Circa, Barbican Theatre

Brisbane acrobats Circa: 'These lunatics know exactly what they are doing'

One of the daily tragedies of being human is that notions in our heads of unaided flight, levitation - any thought of lift-off from our material horizon - lie in drastic disproportion to what flesh and muscle permit. As children, we dream of flying...

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Derevo: Absolute clowns

Clowns are supposed to be chubby, grinning, funny, with anarchic hair and big red noses, like Coco. Or they are Chaplin-types, oppressed little city folk mutely combating the vast machines of the working life. They are not generally shaven-headed...

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