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Open for just over a year and a half, The Pangea Project in Stamford Hill (up the hill from Stokey station, opposite the huge supermarket) is both a tiny but buzzing venue and a community space. It hosts an eclectic range of performers, mixes a …

Let’s start with the ending as that was our favourite bit. Chaos gives way to violence that gives way to song that gives way to ribald dancing that gives way to death on a darkening stage. A 19 year old English soldier, held hostage in …

This is possibly one of the strangest things we’ve ever seen on stage. A series of seven ‘short visual and sound events for two performers’, A Distances is hard to explain. To the sound of endless dripping water, which makes the ICA theatre feel like …

Lucky Londoner and wildlife photographer Julian Cox currently has a seal sunbathing in his back garden. Well, sort of. His flat overlooks St Saviour’s Dock near Tower Bridge where this glorious creature is currently basking in the Thames. “I was given special access out on …

Ockham’s Razor perform The Mill, photography by Nik Mackey The piece begins with wheels moving in shadowy darkness, the human figures powering them barely visible. As the stage is lit, a machine is revealed – a central wheel surrounded by smaller cogs and linked with …

The London International Mime Festival returns on the 13th January, running for 19 days and boasting performances from 15 different companies. We usually only post original photography in our galleries, but these stunners seemed to preview the kinds of eye popping acts on offer better …

Charrington in Blind Summit’s 1984 at BAC. Photograph by Stephen Dobbie The use of cardboard was what made this Blind Summit / BAC production shine for us. Just plain old brown card that threw fabulous shapes. From simple sign posts to junk shop ephemera, and …

Where’s the Thames gone? These pictures were taken during the lowest of low tides at Twickenham/Eel Pie Island yesterday, the result of the annual November draw-off. Every year the weirs at Richmond Lock are lifted to allow the Port of London Authority to carry out …

Perseus and the Gorgon’s Head by PuppetCraft Perseus and the Gorgon’s Head by PuppetCraft played at The Little Angel Theatre this weekend as part of the Suspense London Puppetry Festival. Mixing people with puppets, the performance was an interpretation of an ancient Greek tale written …

Organised by the self styled ‘think and do tank’, the New Economics Foundation, the Festival of Interdependence was a popular choice for a free day out this weekend. By midday on Saturday, a long queue to get into the Bargehouse was developing and organisers were …