REVIEW: Signal to Noise
Reading Time: 2 minutesForced Entertainment’s Signal to Noise is a perfectly baffling wash of delightful creative absurdity
Month October 2024
REVIEW: Gay Pride and No Prejudice
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Gay Pride and No Prejudice is a fun re-telling of the classic Jane Austen novel, with a bit of a gay twist.” Gay Pride and No Prejudice, as the title might suggest, is a re-telling of the…
REVIEW: Fever Dreams
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Manchester Collective's Fever concert was a captivating blend of bold programming, virtuosic performance, and rich emotional contrasts that left the audience spellbound.
In conversation with Chen Xinyi
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with one of China’s most renowned directors, known for her experimentation with theatre aesthetic, combines spoken text, poetry, Peking Opera style performance and live classical music to create a theatre production that tells the life of Cai Lun, the inventor of paper.
REVIEW: Flock
Reading Time: 2 minutesLin Coghlan’s award-winning play Flock follows the lives of two siblings, Robbie and Celia, who grow up in the care system.
REVIEW: The Lehman Trilogy
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe much-celebrated Lehman Trilogy, now showing at the Gillian Lynne Theatre, aims to chronicle the rise and fall of the Lehman Brothers, one of the financial world’s most infamous institutions.
REVIEW: Feel Me
Reading Time: 3 minutesFeel Me integrates physical theatre, projection and music to explore empathy through the lens of discussions and depictions of forced displacement.
REVIEW: Pleading Stupidity
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn March 2005 two Australian young men were on their gap years working in Vail, the American ski town. One snowy day they decided to rob a bank on a whim, for reasons which have never been fully clear.
REVIEW: Bluevolution World Tour
Reading Time: 2 minutesCapital Theatres is in for an electrifying experience this week with the arrival of the Bluevolution World Tour. The renowned Blue Man Group, often hailed as the loudest mimes in the world, took to the stage and captivated audiences with their signature blend of absurdity and comedy.
REVIEW: Brace Brace
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis 70-minute thriller by Oli Forsyth follows two newlyweds, Ray and Sylvia, who suddenly find themselves on board a hijacked plane en route to their honeymoon. As the plane is hijacked Sylvia becomes a hero, fighting the hijacker and giving the pilot time to regain consciousness when they’re a mere 4 seconds away from a fatal crash.