A Quiet Revolution: About The Festival Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 10/10/2021Closer Strangers: East is a platform that enables ‘intercultural dialogue’. As a representation of the Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Queer...
Shelter Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 07/10/2021Down a side street of ram shackled buildings and rust rimmed cars, there is a door. It is not a...
That Walk Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 03/10/2021Agata Siwiak, the art director of Close Strangers: East, is a firm believer in participatory theatre not as a temporary...
Stand Up (for your rights) Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 02/10/2021The scene is set. We are attending a stand-up performance by Belarusian activist and artist Jana Shostak. We are screaming...
Pandemic.ua Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 30/09/2021Pandemic.ua is a project inspired by the inability to communicate in conventional theatrical ways during the pandemic. This performance has...
H-Effect Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 28/09/2021On Friday night, the festival saw the main event; the ‘spectacle’. Close Strangers: East is full to the brim with...
Reviewer's rating Flight Tim Hochstrasser 16/12/2020This is a unique show from start to finish. When you arrive at the Bridge Theatre expectations are confounded. The...
Reviewer's rating New York Butoh Institute Festival 2020 (VIA ZOOM) Dylan Hoffman 16/11/2020Most Americans that think of Butoh imagine it as a Japanese avant-garde dance performed by bald, chiseled men, naked except...
Art Marie Communal 09/04/2020« Mon ami Serge a acheté un tableau. C’est une toile d’environ un mètre soixante sur un mètre vingt, peinte...
★ ★ Swan Lake Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 28/10/2019For my first time seeing Tchaikovsky’s legendary Swan Lake, I was expecting to be enchanted by the ballet’s almost mystical...
