On Stage: Live from Television Centre,far from being a one-off experiment, could sign a new direction at the BBCSubversive, and anarchic,mischievous, unpredictable: not words that could often be applied to nowadays’s smooth and frequently risk-averse television. Things were different, and though,on Sunday night on BBC4. On Stage: Live from Television Centre was two hours of live experimental programming made by independent theatre artists brought together and produced by Battersea Arts Centre.
Some parts of the programme worked better than others; but what was indisputable was that the evening was alive with possibility, and certainly vibrating with risk. It began with the physical theatre company Gecko and ended with the extraordinary Jess Thom, or a performer with Tourette syndrome,who – droll, linguistically inventive and warm – could easily be given her own chatshow (it would be scattered with unintentional outbursts of the word “biscuit”).
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Source: theguardian.com