In Conversation with Fraser Scott
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Fraser Scott, writer and director of Common Tongue.
Month September 2024
REVIEW: Antony and Cleopatra: A Dream of Passion
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis show is adapted from the original play by William Shakespeare, and you have to imagine that when writing it he ever envisaged it being performed by an all gay male cast in the basement of a gay club in East London. And yet, here we are. Antony and Cleopatra condensed down to 70 minutes, relocated to be taking place in a techno nightclub, with a smattering of karaoke songs thrown in for good measure. This show is produced by cabaret legend Jonny Woo who also stars as the titular Cleopatra. William McGeough plays Antony, and the show is directed by Robert Chevara.
In Conversation with Moyosola Olashore
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Moyosola Olashore who is playing Book in Knife on The Table.
REVIEW: Portals and Parallels: Oxford’s Hidden Worlds
Reading Time: 2 minutesPortals and Parallels exposes the duality between Oxford’s privileged surface and the often overlooked areas within it in an informative and entirely unique manner.
In Conversation with Anastasiya Ador
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Anastasiya who brings "Selfies, visas and how I pay for my dinners” to various venues across London.
REVIEW: Kim’s Convenience
Reading Time: 2 minutesDespite being perhaps more widely known for its subsequent Netflix adaptation of the same name, Kim’s Convenience is a stage show written by Canadian writer and actor Ins Choi.
REVIEW: Lazgi: A Dance of Soul and Love
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere are moments in London when everything aligns perfectly, where a single cultural thread weaves its way through the city’s rich offerings.
REVIEW: MotherHood
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs I took my seat in Oxford’s Burton Taylor Studio, I was instantly struck by how many people my age had come to see MotherHood. It's not often that a new one-woman play in a small theatre attracts the 15- 20 year old demographic, though MotherHood was sold out for a second night running, following public demand for more. The second the play began, it was obvious why. Against a projected backdrop of Oxford’s streets, verbatim recordings played the voices of teen boys, sharing their experience growing up ‘in endz’. Instantly I was taken aback by the familiarity of these testimonies; if you’d had told me these were my old classmates speaking I would have believed you.
REVIEW: BAIRNS
Reading Time: 2 minutesEvery woman in her late twenties knows the struggle - to have a baby, or not to have a baby. Balancing laments over the state of the world with the overwhelming maternal urge to reproduce is the subject of much media - Bairns, by Annie Davison, addresses this very struggle in a fresh and nuanced way.
REVIEW: Pigeons in Transit
Reading Time: 3 minutesWriter and performer Hannah Fredsgaard-Jones’ one woman show demonstrates just this, depicting the universal struggle between denial, fear and hope through ingenious use of storytelling and creativity. Dressed in bubblegum blue doc martens and a bright orange gilet- she is a picture of the modern woman. Her apartment is furnished with a large, hot pink inflatable plastic sofa, and a coffee table displaying an aspirational selection of books- ‘How To Fail’; ‘Mending Life’ and ‘How To Read A Tree’ to name a few. However, as she paces around her flat in an agitated manner before using the book stack as a stand for her iphone, it seems the curiosity these titles suggest has been abandoned in the face of despair.