Thursday, 23 August 2012

Project X

London Transport Museum

Start here, in a circle
just as mystified as you, a brain-flushed
roll-call, a meeting of sorts.

Here is your history: a passport
with your face but not your name,
a past you don’t recall at all.

Here is your task: a mission
for your own unravelling, clues to examine,
secrets to swallow.

Follow your instincts out there,
watch your back amongst a strange parade
of characters, riff raff of an unfamiliar universe;

but for all that they’re all you have: talk to them,
barter, charm, get what you need and go
before your time runs out.
 

Project X runs at the London Transport Museum until 4 November 2012


Tuesday, 14 August 2012

The Economist (Edfringe collection)


Taut and tense, one man
obsessed and we are looking
straight into his mind,

his madness, wound up
tight, pushed to the edge, dreadful
and terrifying.


MKA: Theatre of New Writing (Australia)
C-nova, until 27 August


George’s Marvellous Medicine (Edfringe collection)

Hideous grandma
deserves all she gets –
even a mixture

so wild it turns her
into a monster, and then
a pea-sized nothing.


Rubber Duck Theatre
Gryphon Venues at the Point Hotel, until 11 August

The Loves I Haven’t Known (Edfringe collection)


With a smile you sing
of all the girls you never
quite kissed. But nearly.

All the girls you loved
but didn’t tell. Brilliant, sweet,
left us all smiling.


Bush and McClusky
C-nova, until 18 August

The Election – a silent comedy (Edfringe collection)


Purple party: ties,
crisps, booze, mistakes and slip ups –
who would vote for you?


Awkward Cough Theatre Company
Bedlam, until 18 August

As of 1.52pm GMT on Friday April 27th 2012, This Show Has No Title (Edfringe collection)


Kitson reads his script
aloud, ad libs, and delights
us all, and himself. 


Daniel Kitson
Traverse, until 26 August

The Boy with the Cuckoo Clock Heart (Edfringe collection)


Ringmaster, oily
and ingratiating, greets
and tells the story

of a boy whose heart
is kept going with clock parts
and will soon run out.


Jimmy Grimes
Pleasance Courtyard, until 27 August