The Residents 13th Anniversary Show – copyright The Residents and The Cryptic Corporation SurREAL PARTICULAR The best opening to a Residents show would be for a roadie to come on stage and check various pieces of equipment before standing center stage vibrating and then exploding into red mist through which The Residents emerge and immediately […]

image copyright Fox Searchlight During the opening scene of Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky, I remember already thinking to myself – with the tact of Louis C.K. – “That nigger makes the SHIT out of a movie!” There is a great indulgence in his movies tempered only by his own thoughtful control, using the medium […]

“Better than Mary Poppins, but not as creepy.” That’s how Todd Robbins asks audience members to describe the spectacle they had just witnessed at the end of Play Dead, the new stage fright-fest written and directed by the smaller, quieter half of Penn & Teller. Indeed, although there is an ethereal elegance that runs throughout […]

We hear a muddled voice, speaking in rhythm and de facto secrecy, repeating…memorized lines…a religious act…or an act of mild mannered madness. Blues and greys fading to black fill the blanks of the walls, a small white bed somewhere in center. A Victorian nonchalance hangs in the air as it does in her hair, brunette […]