Museum overnights have become well-established, but I had never heard of a sleepover at a theatre venue before… Continue reading
Street Artist Tobo is a Berliner who has been tagging the city since he was eight years old. Continue reading
Travellers tell tales around camp fires, late into the night when nothing else is stirring… Continue reading
Berlin Glas e.V. offers glass-making courses which will ensure you never look at glass the same way again… Continue reading
Stunned. There’s nothing else to say about Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. Continue reading
Lippy, a theatre piece based on a true incident that occurred in Leixlip, Ireland, where four women committed suicide by starving themselves to death, starts with a postshow discussion. Continue reading
I always say there are two types of expats in Berlin; the language people – those who have a real interest in German, have studied it at university or work as translators – and the rest of us. Continue reading
The Last Supper by Ahmed El Attar, currently on as part of the Schaubühne’s Festival International New Drama (FIND), is a fascinating glimpse into the Egyptian bourgeois. Continue reading
It is rumoured that Boris Lurie’s No!art movement got its name when a woman entered an exhibition on 10th street in New York, looked his Railroad to America collage (below), and ran out screaming “No! No! No!” Continue reading
Fear Industry is not really a play. Rather, it is a montage of movement and sound building on one theme; fear. Continue reading
The Berlin Soundpainting Orchestra’s concert at Friedenskirche, a Baptist church in Charlottenburg with a history stretching back to 1897. Continue reading
Friedrichstadt-Palast – the glitzy show palace in Mitte – recently hosted an illuminating discussion about German and British theatre… Continue reading
This Friday, 29th January, I will be reading at Inkblot Berlin at the English Theatre. Come along… Continue reading
“You have both been – obviously wrongly – locked in an asylum,” says Toby.
I cast a sideways glance at the Bavarian, who could probably quite legitimately be sent to a mad house. Continue reading
The plethora of street art in the middle of the city will snake around your mind and grab you. Continue reading
Lukas is a musical with a difference; modern, minimalist, set in Berlin. Continue reading
A hundred years ago, on 25th November 1915, Einstein proved his general theory of relativity, transforming our understanding of physical reality. Continue reading
There’s no place like time is an art exhibition with a twist. Continue reading
I am loath to say anything critical about Daniel Sloss because he started yesterday night’s show at Berlin’s Quatsch Comedy Club by reading out the last letter of complaint he received. Continue reading
Think An English Man in Berlin on PMS instead of Hunter S Thompson on acid… Continue reading
In ancient Rome, the term ‘Genius’ Loci existed, the ‘soul of the place.’ The soul of the city spoke to its inhabitants in the shape of a snake. Continue reading
