‘What is a memorial device? Is it like a pocket watch that you’ve inherited? Is it like a gravestone? Or is it more like a dictaphone – a dictaphone where you can record your memories? Is it like a marker in the sand? What is a memorial device?’ This is Ross Raymond speaking. He’s invited […] The post This Is Memorial Device: A Portal Into Our Collective Musical Memories appeared first on Total Theatre ..read more

An appreciation of Penny Francis, MBE who died in June 2023. Dorothy Max Prior and a host of other friends, former students, and colleagues from the world of puppetry and visual theatre tell us what the incorrigible Doyenne of Puppetry meant to them. We have lost our Queen!  Dear Penny Francis has left the building. […] The post Do Come with the Chablis Soon appeared first on Total Theatre ..read more

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Curated programmes, trusted venues, familiar artists and producers – Dorothy Max Prior plays it safe at the Edinburgh Festivals 2023 Edinburgh, August 2023. I’m standing in a queue (inevitably) waiting to go into the Main Hall at Summerhall to see a sold-out show – Laura Murphy’s Making a Spectacle of Herself.  ‘It feels like we’re […] The post Nuggets – Edinburgh Festival & Fringe Round-Up 2023 appeared first on Total Theatre ..read more

Three body positive shows seen at Summerhall – High Steaks, A Spectacle of Herself, and Weathervanes Sitting on a table in, appropriately enough, the Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Eloina Haines slowly removes the mirror placed in front of her vulva and opens her legs wide to reveal her labia. We are well into her show High Steaks, […] The post Our Bodies, Our Selves – Ed Fringe 2023 appeared first on Total Theatre ..read more

Sacred spaces, peepshows, spooky ghost hunts and duels – all circus life is here at the Edinburgh Fringe 2023 There is circus, and there is circus…  And the Edinburgh Fringe 2023 brings us the full spectrum, from circus-cabaret shows presented at all hours of the day and night, to full-blown extravaganzas from the world’s top […] The post From the Sublime to the Ridiculous – Circus at Ed Fringe 2023 appeared first on Total Theatre ..read more

‘Once upon a time there were people between birth and death. We are those people. We are here, and we have come together to remember and forget.’ Thus starts Funeral, the latest work by Flemish masters Ontroerend Goed to arrive at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The multi-award-winning company have shocked, surprised and enchanted audiences for […] The post It’s a Wonderful Life appeared first on Total Theatre ..read more

No Future? Edward Taylor celebrates 40 years of the Whalley Range All Stars, street theatre makers and animators extraordinaire, whose co-founders are now coming full circle back to their roots  We’re 40 years old this year (2022), but let’s face it, we’re a street theatre company – we’ve made the faintest of marks (if any) […] The post Someone Had To Do It appeared first on Total Theatre ..read more

A large-scale processional performance through the town centre from French maestros Les Commandos Percu, parkour from Belgium’s Be Flat, female clown Margherita Mischitelli from Italy, and plenty of new circus and street arts from across the UK and beyond. Out There International Festival of Circus and Street Arts in Great Yarmouth is back with a […] The post Banging a Drum for Out There Festival appeared first on Total Theatre ..read more