A portrait of two bodies resisting: Maddy Costa reviews Rachael Young and Dwayne Antony’s performance at IBT17.
Maddy Costa
Articles by Maddy Costa
9 February 2017
Reviews • Bristol
Review: Ghost Dance at IBT17 in Bristol
Arnolfini ⋄ 8 Feb 2017
By Maddy Costa
Two men are dancing: Maddy Costa reviews Lone Twin’s durational performance at Bristol’s In Between Time festival.
6 February 2017
Features
Busty Beatz: “I’m responding to capitalism, patriarchy, elitism.”
By Maddy Costa
Busty Beatz, MD of Hot Brown Honey, is on residency at Wellcome Collection as part of The Sick Of The Fringe. She talks to Maddy Costa about making the personal political, and confronting Wellcome’s colonialism.
31 January 2017
Features
Writing for Calais
By Maddy Costa
After two decades of writing about performance, Maddy Costa is taking a frightening leap into writing for the stage. She explains why Crew For Calais’s work inspired her to tell the stories of last year’s chaotic refugee camp clearances.
3 January 2017
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Dr Carnesky’s Incredible Bleeding Woman at the Soho Theatre
Soho Theatre ⋄ 13th December 2016 - 7th January 2017
By Maddy Costa
A bloody revolution: Maddy Costa discusses a visit from auntie Flo, and other euphemisms.
19 December 2016
Reviews • West End & Central
Sing-a-long Review! Duckie at the Southbank Centre
Southbank Centre ⋄ Until 24th December 2017
By Maddy Costa
Maddy Costa’s Christmas sing-a-long review of Le Gateau Chocolat’s Duckie at the Southbank Centre.
2 December 2016
Features
Putting Words In Your Mouth
By Maddy Costa
Maddy Costa discusses Scottee’s “vital, uneasy, excoriating, demanding” new work.
2 December 2016
Features • Q&A and Interviews
Xavier de Sousa: “Migrants… were not part of the conversation.”
By Maddy Costa
Maddy Costa talks to Xavier de Sousa about migration, being a host and his new show POST at the Ovalhouse.
16 November 2016
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: My Mother Medea at the Unicorn Theatre
Unicorn Theatre ⋄ 17th October - 25th November 2016
By Maddy Costa
Casting out on a merciless sea: Maddy Costa reviews My Mother Medea at the Unicorn Theatre.
28 October 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe
Review: Ready, Steady Go! at Discover Children’s Story Centre
Discover Children's Story Centre ⋄ 24th - 28th October 2016
By Maddy Costa
Room for the imagination (but not the f-word): Maddy Costa reviews a half-term children’s show at the Discover Children’s Story Centre.
24 October 2016
Features
Shon Dale-Jones: “Most people are brilliant when you start asking.”
By Maddy Costa
“You just do what you can, and don’t be overwhelmed by how enormous the scale of things is” – as right-wing extremism grows and the refugee crisis worsens, Shon Dale-Jones is touring The Duke, a storytelling piece that hinges on a china figurine. Here, Maddy Costa talks to him about fundraising through performance, poverty, and making work with a social purpose.
14 October 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe
Review: Kissing the Shotgun Goodnight at Ovalhouse
Ovalhouse ⋄ 6th - 11th October 2016
By Maddy Costa
Cut up: Maddy Costa’s collage review of Chris Brett Bailey’s new show at Ovalhouse.
6 October 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe
Our Carnal Hearts by Rachel Mars
Shoreditch Town Hall ⋄
By Maddy Costa
The carnal heart pulsing within prison-bar ribs: Maddy Costa responds to Rachel Mars’ Our Carnal Hearts.
24 September 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe
Review: punkplay at Southwark Playhouse
Southwark Playhouse ⋄ 7th September - 1st October 2016
By Maddy Costa
Best friends, bad friends and record collections: Maddy Costa discusses the DIY spirit of punk and Gregory Moss’s play.
15 September 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • West End & Central
Review: Doctor Faustus at the Barbican
Barbican Theatre ⋄ 7th September - 1st October 2016
By Maddy Costa
Mid-life crisis: Maddy Costa reviews the RSC’s Doctor Faustus at the Barbican.