Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are performances that declare their politics openly, and there are performances that allow meaning to emerge through experience. Marco da Silva Ferreira's F** Futures* belongs firmly in the latter category.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Matilda Shapland to discuss 'Little Women'.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs a first impression, there is something almost disorientating about watching Quartet in Autumn in 2026. Not because the play itself feels outdated, but because almost everything surrounding the characters now belongs to a vanished social landscape.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The show captures the peculiar British ability to balance melancholy, absurdity and wonder all at once.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAt once meditative and deeply visceral, the double bill presented by 99 Art Company at The Place unfolded less like a conventional evening of dance and more like a carefully constructed ceremony of memory, grief and endurance.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnna Clyne’s music has a fascinating habit of seducing the listener before quietly unsettling them. That duality sat at the centre of Sirens and Serenades at St Martin-in-the-Fields, an evening that explored not simply beauty in sound, but beauty carrying an undercurrent of danger.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA grimy, glittering spiral into vanity, delusion and emotional decay, played with thrilling intensity There is something deeply chaotic about Philip Ridley’s The Fastest Clock in the Universe, and that chaos feels surprisingly at home in 2026.…
Reading Time: 2 minutesCotton Queen is a coming-of-age story, but it is also about inheritance, women’s power and the long afterlife of colonialism. At the BFI preview screening of Cotton Queen, film journalist Leila Latif introduced the film by situating…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile the dance captivates, the argument it seeks to make never entirely lands. Shobana Jeyasingh’s We Caliban, now playing at Sadler’s Wells East, arrives with a bold proposition: to revisit Shakespeare’s The Tempest through a postcolonial lens,…
Reading Time: 2 minutes"Something in between nostalgia and initiation, the 50th anniversary screening felt less like revisiting a classic than being enthusiastically recruited into its ever-growing cult"