REVIEW: BLKDOG
Reading Time: 2 minutesBLKDOG is a blend of hip-hop dance and freeform movement, choregraphed by Botis Seva in collaboration with Far From The Norm.
Alex Ansdell
I'm a 21-year-old currently studing at Italia Conti in London. I fell in love with acting doing musicals in school and haven't stopped since. After a brief detour at uni, I came to drama school and began going to the theatre again and again - now I can't stop! Through reviewing, I hope to give people a taste of the best theatre around and big up the great work actors are doing. Outside acting, I'm often out playing football and basketball or making music with mates.
REVIEW: Dido’s Bar
Reading Time: 2 minutesDido’s Bar is a collaboration between director Josephine Burton, playwright Hattie Naylor and composer Marouf Majidi, paralleling Majidi's journey across Europe to find a musical home with Aeneas’ journey from Troy back home to Italy.
REVIEW: Eureka Day
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe show in question is Eureka Day, written by Jonathan Spector and directed by Katy Rudd, making its UK premiere after a 2019 run in the States
REVIEW: Clutch
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the ultimate rites of passage for any young person is learning to drive. The dream of open roads, windows down, music blasting, the entire world at your clutch pedals. The only barrier standing between you and this complete freedom is 20 sessions with The Worst Person In The World aka your instructor.
REVIEW: The Great Gatsby (Immersive)
Reading Time: 2 minutesImmersive LDN have turned the clocks back 100 years at their Mayfair hub for their production of The Great Gatsby, directed and adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel by Alexander Wright.
REVIEW: Mediocre White Male
Reading Time: 2 minutesMediocre White Male is an hour-long one-man show written and directed by Will Close and Joe Von Malachowski, as part of the Boys! Boys! Boys! season at the King’s Head after runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Park Theatre.
REVIEW: The Trials
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is the heart of The Trials, Dawn King’s urgent new play, running at the Donmar Warehouse after its 2021 premiere in Dusseldorf. The best way I can describe it is if Gen-Z did 12 Angry Men. In a future where climate change has rendered much of the world uninhabitable, children adjudicate on their parents and debate whether the self-interest of older generations led them to doom future ones.
Peaky Blinders: The Rise at The Garrison, Camden Stables Market
Reading Time: 3 minutesImmersive Everywhere’s new show Peaky Blinders: The Rise, directed by Tom Maller and written by Katie Lyons, is housed in a converted horse hospital in the heart of Camden Stables Market.
REVIEW: Scottish Ballet’s Crucible at Sadler’s Wells
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis show is a timely reminder not only of the dangers that come with a culture of accusations and sensationalism, but also of the power of ballet as a storytelling artform.