A mixed bag, but a thoroughly engaging watch: Mary Halton reviews Tristan Bernays’ updating of biblical tales at the Vault festival.
Mary Halton
Articles by Mary Halton
3 February 2017
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: We Are Brontë at Vault Festival 2017
The Vaults ⋄ 1 - 5 February 2017
By Mary Halton
Bizarre. Wonderfully so: Mary Halton overcomes a hesitant relationship with the Brontë sisters to be won over by Publick Transport’s Vault festival performance.
11 November 2016
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: London Stories at the Battersea Arts Centre
Battersea Arts Centre ⋄ 4th - 26th November 2016
By Mary Halton
“This is not the day to feel joy, but it is exactly the day to be joyous.” Mary Halton listens to six stories by migrants at the BAC.
29 September 2016
Features
Stella Duffy: “People have very different conversations when they’re putting up a trestle table together.”
By Mary Halton
Mary Halton interviews Stella Duffy about how Fun Palaces unite artists, scientists, and communities – often in surprising ways.
2 September 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe
Review: Adler & Gibb at the Unicorn Theatre
Unicorn Theatre ⋄ 30th August - 3rd September 2016
By Mary Halton
A frantic desire to possess: Mary Halton reviews Adler & Gibb’s short post-Edinburgh run in London.
14 July 2016
Features • Opinion • Strangeness + Charm
Interviewing an Outlaw: Hannah Nicklin
By Mary Halton
In the latest installment of Strangeness + Charm, Hannah Nicklin discusses her upcoming show Equations for a Moving Body, combining performance with sport, personal limits and personal bests.
29 March 2016
Features • Opinion • Q&A and Interviews • Strangeness + Charm
Interview: Alistair McDowall
By Mary Halton
Mary Halton talks to Alistair McDowall about upcoming play X at the Royal Court, Pluto, remoteness and Pomona.
4 February 2016
Features • Opinion • Strangeness + Charm
Column: 342 Days
By Mary Halton
The year-long durational performance none of you are watching.
3 December 2015
Features • Opinion • Strangeness + Charm
The Art of Looking
By Mary Halton
Strangeness + Charm explores the art of science and the science of art. This month – looking at looking at each other.
5 November 2015
Features • Opinion • Strangeness + Charm
Performing Language
By Mary Halton
Strangeness + Charm explores the art of science and the science of art. This month – accents.
5 October 2015
Features • Strangeness + Charm
Terra Firma
By Mary Halton
Exeunt’s new Science & Art column, Strangeness + Charm: There’s no place like home.
6 August 2015
Features
Hamlet: Anatomy of a Cumberkerfuffle
By Mary Halton
Mary Halton on reviewing previews and respecting fandoms in a gathering media storm.
15 May 2015
Features
Gladly Beyond
By Mary Halton
Luca Rutherford on the development of her solo show about death, Learning How to Die.
10 March 2015
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Fiction
Battersea Arts Centre ⋄ 3rd - 21st March 2015
By Mary Halton
All that we see or seem.
2 March 2015
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Rove
Battersea Arts Centre ⋄ 24th - 28th February 2015
By Mary Halton
The stories we tell about ourselves.