What can politics teach poetry? That was the question posed by Tim Clare and Mark Grist at this unusual verse meets votes show at Norwich Arts Centre.
Explore More
From the very start of Hofesh Shechter’s return to the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, with a blatant nod to the monolith and apes of 2001 Space Odyssey, we a bombarded with a dense series of cultural references.
Explore More
Skulking on stage in his skinny jeans,
white t-shirt, and fulsome beard, David McAlmont cuts an unprepossessing
figure.
The Friday night crowd had come to
celebrate the weekend, the bank holiday – and possibly half term too – and they
were definitely in the mood to party.
A literary twist on TED talks, 5×15
offered five snapshot views from writers and thinkers to challenge our approach
to the world.
This second night of jazz in Chapelfield
Gardens took a slightly edgier route, with four-piece outfit Get The Blessing
showcasing material from their five albums.
Reading from his debut book Grief Is The Thing With Feathers, Max Porter said it was too hot in the bejewelled Spiegeltent surroundings to get in to the really heavy stuff – as if the extracts he delivered with such brave force were easy words.
Explore More
Normally to be found in their basement bar in London’s Broadway Market, this jazzy, swinging seven-piece hit the Spiegeltent for just one night.
Explore More
This IOU Theatre piece definitively gives
a new perspective on life: for most of the show the audience are watching from
the back of an open-top bus.
The Spiegeltent is an other-worldly venue, and this Hocus Pocus and Gossamer Thread co-production, Night Magic, seeks to lift the veil and take you to the other side.
Explore More
One of the delights of live theatre is feeling an audience react.
Explore More
Eleven stories scattered across the battered remains of an old factory are yours to explore in this creative and surprising event from the Writers’ Centre Norwich.
Explore More
The Bard of Barking opened this sold-out gig with a classic Bragg number, the Milkman of Human Kindness, and the crowd never stopped drinking it up
Explore More
This is circus, but with a Spiegeltent twist: a naked man straining against cling film before rolling over giant blue balls; a dancer twisting and flexing on the floor like a woman with zombie limbs that leaves you feeling like you’ve been to a chiropractor.
Explore MoreLooking like they had been transported straight from a 1930s tea dance, the FB Pocket Orchestra brought the sounds of the early 20th century back to the Spiegeltent – the sort of music that would have reverberated around its mirrored walls at its creation.
Explore More