Lead Artist and Performed by Mamoru Iriguchi Co-Directed & Co-Designed by Fergus Dunnet Review by Dominic Corr Traverse Theatre (Manipulate Run) ★★★ A strikingly unique and compelling theatrical curiosity unfolds in Glasgow as Vanishing Point presents Size Matters, a production that stretches its central metaphor across an hour of inventive puppetry, shifting scale, and philosophical musing, landing … Continue reading Review: Size Matters – The Citizens Theatre, Glasgow
The Manipulate Festival, Scotland's international festival of animation, film, movement, puppetry, and visual theatre returns for its ambitious 17th season. This year's festival will run from February 1st - 11th across multiple physical and online venues. The full programme can be found here. Next week, Edinburgh will host the return of one of the most … Continue reading Have a Gander – Manipulate Festival 2024
Written by Ramesh Meyyappan Directed by Matthew Lenton ★★★★ The stream of productions which open themselves up to offer an insight into the lives of those living with dementia is becoming a more commonplace and tightly executed trend in Scottish theatre. A remarkably pure story of a love story of loss, and self-love, Raw Material … Continue reading Love Beyond (Act of Remembrance) – Traverse Theatre
Co-Created and Performed by Lucy Ireland and Jim Manganello Creative Production by Helen McIntosh ★★★ Just what is Vertigo anyhow? The film critic side wants to push for its tertiary genre as a psychological thriller, a romantic drama, and of course a tragedy. But when transitioning to the stage, MANIPULATE 2023’s second Hitchcock-inspired piece, Glasgow-based Shotput Theatre’s Ferguson … Continue reading Ferguson and Barton – The Studio
Produced by Agruación Señor Serrano Created by Álex Serrano, Pau Palacios and Ferran Dorda ★★★ With the sixteenth edition of Edinburgh’s stupendously inventive, diverse and creative visual storytelling festival MANIPULATE underway, Capital Theatre’s The Studio offers a fond welcome return to the Barcelona-based theatre company Señor Serrano, whose previous 2017 MANIPULATE piece A House In Asia became … Continue reading Birdie – MANIPULATE 2023
The Manipulate Festival, Edinburgh's international festival of animation film, puppetry, and visual theatre returns for its ambitious 16th season. This year's festival will run from February 2nd - 12th across multiple physical and online venues in and around Edinburgh. In two weeks’ time, Edinburgh will host the return of one of the most extensive international … Continue reading Have a Gander – Manipulate 2023
Created by Eleanor Perry & Daniel Hay-Gordon ★★★★ Cobbling together as varied and enriched a style as they can muster, duo Eleanor Perry (Tight) and Daniel Hay-Gordon (Thick) combine an arrangement of queer culture, design, mime, choreography and heaping of dramatic inspiration into this mixed arrangement of short pieces. Seven. To be exact. Though unfortunately … Continue reading Short & Sweet – The Studio
Originally conceived by Eszter Marsalko, Isy Sharman and Claire Eliza Willoughby Devised and Performed by Ian Cameron, Isy Sharman and Claire Eliza Willoughby ★★★ Frozen, out of time, slipping on the wet cobbles beneath in her loud dress without any shoes – Prey lays there with the snaps of cold water flushing her face. Nothing … Continue reading Eat Me – Manipulate Festival
https://youtu.be/7BZ8ot3zOmk Devised & Performed by Sadiq Ali Co-devised & Performed by Hauk Pattison ★★★★ Forbidden. Sinful. Haram. Different worlds cultivate similar restrictions and ideals, garbed in diverse cultures and histories. And challenging the status of faith, sexuality, and connection – The Chosen Haram aids in opening the 2022 season of Manipulate Festival with its premiere launch. A … Continue reading The Chosen Haram – Manipulate Festival
Shadowbird (★★★★) Shadowbird starts as a quaint production but grows into something so much more. A fisherman, sculpted wonderfully by Mary and David Grieve, begins his story in the way all good stories are told... as he finishes off a pint. Soon, we're thrown into a world of epic adventure and charming design. The frame through which performers convey … Continue reading Manipulate Festival Part 2 – Summerhall
