Essentially War Horse meets The Lion King, in many ways Michael Morpurgo’s 1996 children’s novel The Butterfly Lion is a theatrical dead cert. Moving between...

Set in a dystopian, parallel version of 1950s Britain occupied by “the Motherland”, Maggot Moon follows a severely dyslexic 15-year-old, Standish Treadwell. Adapted from Sally...

As a playful Brechtian parable, Theatre Centre’s The Border wears its serious side lightly as knockabout cartoon-style antics break out into an audience debate...

The twins Aphrodite and Ilithyia are completely unaware of how powerful they are. So powerful in fact that the mighty Zeus himself could be...

Wolves may be in the title, but tutti frutti’s children’s show is all about the sheep. Its familiar story is told by three busily...

Anansi the Spider is perhaps the most famous character in Afro-Caribbean folklore. He’s loveable and wise, but he is also a mischief maker, a...

The Little Angel Theatre doesn’t shy away from presenting children’s shows imbued with melancholic elements. Edward Lear used ‘nonsense’ verse as a method for circumnavigating...

Backbone, the latest touring circus show from Gravity and Other Myths, is a wonderful example of how to make something insanely difficult seem easy. For...

There’s a structural elegance to Ben Hart’s 2018 show The Nutshell. While many magic acts conclude with a routine that satisfyingly ties all the...

Oh my God, they’re back again. Eleven years since they debuted with School of Pop and a good while since they last performed at...

You'll be hard pushed to find a circus gang with more technical gymnastic ability and joie de vivre than Flip Fabrique. Blizzard contains many...

Ellie Dubois and Kim Donohoe’s new circus show for babies is a delight. From start to finish, it’s a gentle but hugely engaging series...