Performance – Current Issue

Archived Articles

In Conversation With

Aifric Campbell talks about ‘Loss Adjustor’
Andrew Porter talks about ‘The Theory of Light and Matter’
Attica Locke talks about ‘Black Water Rising’
Clare Jay talks about ‘Breathing in Colour’
Danser Sa Vie Expression through Dance
Ed Atkins Shifting Boundaries Between Cinema and Literature
Elaine di Rollo talks about ‘Bleakly Hall’
Eleanor Catton talks about ‘The Rehearsal’
Gemma Weekes talks about ‘Love Me’
Gina Ochsner ‘The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight’
Michèle Roberts talks about ‘Mud: Stories of Sex and Love’
Neil Forsyth talks about ‘Let Them Come Through’
Polly Samson talks about ‘Perfect Lives’
Rula Jebreal talks about ‘Miral’
Simon Curtis Talks about his film, televison and theatre
Tiffany Murray talks about ‘Diamond Star Halo’
Wesley Stace Talks about ‘Considered as a Murderer’

2012 Articles

The 24 Hour Plays Theatre for the Brave
The Capacity To Act House of Cards
Physical Theatre Emotional Honesty
Return to Childhood Puppet Theatre
Simplicity & Nonsense Pass the Spoon
Unrestricted Movement Merce Cunningham Dance Company

2011 Articles

Exploring Culture Through Movement Shen Wei Dance Arts
Leo Benedictus Metafiction with a 21st Century Twist
One-on-One Festival An Intimate Performance
Relinquishing Control The Life and Death of Marina Abramović
Unidentified Discontent: Social Violence Saved

2010 Articles

Adam Ross A Story of Marriage and Escapism
Danza Contemporaranea de Cuba Revolutionary Dance
Dinaw Mengestu Truth & Lies on the Road to Nashville
For Mountain, Sand and Sea Town and Theatre: An Experiment with Narrative
Justine Kilkerr Lessons on How to Tame your Inner Lion
Maile Chapman A Gothic Novel with a Twist
Paul Murray A crash course on bullies, boredom and power structures
Rufus Wainwright Musical Journeys from Pop to Opera
Salvatore Scibona Refracted Dreams in the New World
The People’s Theatre Inconvenient Spoof
The Games of Nonchalance A New Kind of Theatre: Play in Public Spaces
The Thrill of It All Language of Dance & the Mechanics of Theatre

2009 Articles

100 Years of championing poetry The Poetry Society
Blood Wedding Immersive Theatre Now
Chika Unigwe The Luxury of Shame
Colson Whitehead Pop Culture & Larger Concerns
Danny Moynihan When art takes on a life of its own
In the Spirit of Diaghilev Innovation for 21st Century Ballet
Keith Donohue Re-enchanting Everyday Life
Love & Loss in Palestine I Am Yusuf and This Is My Brother
Miriam Toews A journey into The Flying Troutmans
Nicolas Dickner Searching for Nikolski
Simon Robson Emotional Journeys to the Self
Observer Morality in a Fledgling Democracy
Over There Mark Ravenhill & Ramin Gray’s collapsing ideologies
Sophie Cooke Questions of Truth
Spill Festival Challenging elitism
Tom Lee Sacrifice to the novel

2008 Articles

Alex Wheatle Holding up a mirror to society
Belarus Free Theatre Performing against censorship
Bloodaxe Celebrates 30 years with a groundbreaking new collection
Born in Bethlehem Theatre that tackles a 60 year conflict
Daljit Nagra Writing about the real world
Faïza Guène Untold stories, contrasting worlds & dreams
Forced Entertainment Experimental Theatre: Provoking Ideas
Hounding of David Oluwale Eclipse Theatre
Irvine Welsh Exploring controversy & exposing reality
Jonny Steinberg Journeying through an epidemic
Mark Doty The personal & the universal
Mashirika Theatre against genocide
Peter Ackroyd The intriguing blend of fact & fiction
Sadie Jones Journeys, enthralling narratives & recent success
Sarah Waters Writing through the lens of history
Sean O’Brien Social, cultural & political
Stella Duffy Diversity, creativity & charisma

2007 Articles

Benjamin Zephaniah Interview
Carol Birch Writing the past
Caryl Phillips filling in the gaps
Circus: The Forgotten Art
David Mitchell The Art Of Writing Fiction
deciBel 2007 Anansi Storytelling
Helen Oyeyemi Interview
Jack Mapanje Truth and Alternative History
Jackie Kay Interview
Julian Gough Winner of the National Short Story Prize 2007
Linton Kwesi Johnson The Father of Reggae
Mary Gaitskill Talking about her book Veronica
Ngugi wa Thiong’o Tackling issues of colonialism and postcolonialism
Patience Agbabi Pop Poet
Sandra Newman Cake
Sophie Woolley When to run

Book Reviews

100 Ideas That Changed Film David Parkinson
100 Years of Fashion Cally Blackman
Ai Weiwei, essay by Mark Siemons Ai Weiwei: So Sorry
Ali Smith There but for the
Allan Tannenbaum New York in the 70s
Allegra Pesenti Rachel Whiteread:Drawings
Andreas F. Beitin & Peter Weibel Elmgreen & Dragset: Trilogy
Anita Desai The Artist of Disappearance
Anne Higonnet A Museum of One’s Own: Private Collecting, Public Gift
Anne Peile Repeat It Today with Tears
Arnaldur Indriðason Operation Napoleon
Audrey Niffenegger Her Fearful Symmetry
Barry Schwabsky Vitamin P2
Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg Foreword Earl A. Powell III
Caspar David Friedrich Johannes Grave
Catherine Millet Jealousy
Ceri Radford A Surrey State of Affairs
Charles Russell Groundwaters: A Century of Art by Self-Taught and Outsider Artists
Charlotte Bonham-Carter & David Hodge The Contemporary Art Book
Chika Unigwe On Black Sisters’ Street
Christophe Agou In the Face of Silence
Christopher Lyon Nancy Spero: The Work
Colson Whitehead Sag Harbour
David Evans Critical Dictionary
David Shields Reality Hunger
David Trueba Learning to Lose
Dimitri Verhulst Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill
DIY Couture Rosie Martin
Drape Drape 2 Hisako Sato
Ed. Edward A Shanken Art And Electronic Media
Ed Hugh Honour & John Fleming A World History of Art (Revised 7th edition)
Ed. Karlheinz Essl Chalo! India: A New Era of Indian Art
Ed. Matthew Spender Arshile Gorky
Ed. Mike Evans Woodstock: Three Days that Rocked the World
Ed. Paul St George Sequences
Elin Høyland The Brothers
Eliza Williams How 30 Great Ads Were Made: From Idea to Campaign
Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus
Faïza Guène Bar Balto
Fannie Flagg I Still Dream About You
Fashion & Sustainability Kate Fletcher & Lynda Grose
Faye Robson Gary Hume: Flashback
FUSE 1-20 Neville Brody/Jon Wozencroft
Ian Berry and Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson Fred Tomaselli
Judy Chicago Frida Kahlo: Face to Face
Gail Jones Five Bells
Gary Shteyngart Super Sad True Love Story
George Packer George Orwell Narrative Essays
Günter Grass The Tin Drum
Haruki Murakami 1Q84
Hello Nature William Wegman
India Knight Comfort and Joy A Novel
Isabelle Azoulay Martin Eder: The Pale Dance
Helmut Friedel Gerhard Richter Atlas
Isabelle Azoulay Martin Eder: The Pale Dance
Jáchym Topol Gargling with Tar
James Lasdun It’s Beginning to Hurt
James Lawrence Robert Rauschenberg
James Miller Sunshine State
Jan Costin Wagner Silence
Jane Feaver Love Me Tender
Jeffrey Rotter The Unknown Knowns
Jennifer Hudson Designs for Small Spaces
Jim DeRogatis The Velvet Underground
Jitesh Patel The Tote Bag
Joe Dunthorne Submarine
Joe Dunthorne Wild Abandon
Joe Simpson The Sound of Gravity
John Burnside A Summer of Drowning
Judy Chicago Frida Kahlo: Face to Face
Julia Franck The Blind Side of the Heart
Julian Rothenstein The Redstone Book of the Eye
Jürgen Döring Lichtenstein Posters
Keith Donohue Angels of Destruction
Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective Stephanie Barron et al
Kevin Salatino Edward Hopper’s Maine
Kim Edwards The Lake of Dreams
Korean Contemporary Art Miki Wick Kim
Kurt Vonnegut Look at the Birdie
Linden MacIntyre The Bishop’s Man
Louise Schouwenberg et al. Hella Jongerius: Misfit
Lynne Cooke et al Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan
Maaza Mengiste Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
Madeline Schwartzman See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception
Marilyn Chin Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen
Martin Creed: Works Intro by Martin Creed
Martin Herbert Mark Wallinger
Mary Warner Marien Photography: A Cultural History
Max Schaefer Children of the Sun
The Mechanical Hand Michael Taylor
Meg Wolitzer The Uncoupling
Meghan Dailey Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture
Melissa Chiu & Benjamin Genocchio Contemporary Asian Art
Michael Eastman Havana
Molly Donovan Andy Warhol: Headlines
Morgan Falconer & Sam Phillips The Art Guide: New York & London
Nancy Princenthal Hannah Wilke
Nadine Monem David Shrigley: Brain Activity
Nicole Krauss Great House
P. Robert Smith Sunday Daffodil and Other Happy Endings
Padgett Powell The Interrogative Mood
Patricia C. Phillips Ursula von Rydingsvard: Working
Patrick DeWitt Ablutions: Notes for a Novel
Patrick Cramsie The Story of Graphic Design
Patrick Thomas Protest Stencil Toolkit
Paul Sloman Contemporary Art in the Middle East: Artworld
Paula Rego: The Complete Graphic Work T.G. Rosenthal
Paweł Althamer (ed) Roman Kurzmeyer, Adam Szymczyk & Suzanne Cotter
Philip Sington The Einstein Girl
Photo Album Chino Otsuka
Pieter Hugo: This Must Be The Place TJ Demos & Aaron Schuman
Pop Art Bradford R Collins
Raw + Material = Art Tristan Manco
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala A Lovesong for India
Rebecca Peabody et al. Pacific Standard Time
Sabiha Al Khemir The Blue Manuscript
Sadie Jones Small Wars
Sanctuary Hossein Amirsadeghi
Sarah Moss Cold Earth
Sheila Rowbotham Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love
Shilpa Gupta Nancy Adajania
Simon Fujiwara Miguel Amando
Stephen J. Eskilson Graphic Design: A History
Terry Smith Contemporary Art:World Currents
Tim Thornton Death of an Unsigned Band
Various authors in collaboration with Oxfam Ox-Tales: Water, Air, Fire, Earth
Will Napier Without Warning
Zehra Jumabhoy The Empire Strikes Back