Review: Pulse Fringe Festival: Ours Was The Fen Country – New Wolsey Studio, Ipswich

The fenlands of East Anglia are an unsettling area. The vast expanse of big skies and dark earth seeming somewhat unnatural to visitors. It’s an area that has undergone considerable change as man drained the land to create some of the most fertile land in the country. Dan Canham and Silent House have used interviews…

Review: Pulse Fringe Festival: Under Stokes Croft – New Wolsey Studio, Ipswich

To begin at the beginning, so starts Dylan Thomas’s epic narrative poem Under Milk Wood, detailing 24 hours in the life of a small, fictional fishing village. It’s also an appropriate line in which to kick off Ipswich’s 12th Pulse Fringe Festival. Bristol-based poet Jack Dean has updated Thomas’s epic poem to his home city….