Reading Time: 3 minutesEnjoying its British premiere run at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant, this musical production of Jane Eyre co-directed by John Caird and Megan McGinnis is largely faithful to its literary source. Filled with soaring ballads of hope and self-reflection, this Jane Eyre is as earnest as its heroine but is light on depth.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVAULT Creative Arts has officially opened the Lower Marsh Arts Club, a newly refurbished permanent venue in London that will support early-career artists through a new £8,000 guarantee scheme and a free-to-participate arts festival. Formerly known…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with John Webber. A drama exploring class tensions in climate activism against a South Essex backdrop, Fire Fire is a two hander by John Webber drawing on his experiences of growing up and working in Thurrock, once one of the UK's primary oil refining hubs.
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Nicky Allpress, writer and director of The Turn of the Screw. England. A remote country house. A young governess, hired to care for two children, begins what appears to be an idyllic new life – but something about the children hints at a darker presence.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Lunatics' Common Room is the first solo exhibition by photographer-artist Yoanna Walden. Featuring 15 carefully staged photographic works, Walden aims to create a shared space for those historically deprived of their autonomy within psychiatric institutions, while interrogating systems of control and the social construction of madness.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThree years after Punchdrunk closed the doors of its vast Woolwich production, audiences are being invited back into its labyrinth for the world premiere of Persephone, a new film following The Burnt City through the eyes of one of its…
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Romeo & Hamed's writer Scott Horgan, talks about the mammoth task of re-imagining Shakespeare, and creating an exciting and authentic world for his characters to play in.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMonotony fine-tuned to perfection Devised by Mike Leigh with the help of a company of actors, Abigail’s Party explores suburban life in 1970’s Britain, with all the action taking place in a living room on one fateful evening. Frequently…
Reading Time: 3 minutesLatch is an excellent play delving into the minds of the contemporary teenage girl A 60-minute slumber party which serves as a reminder of what it was to be a teenage girl, Camden Fringe show Latch at…
Reading Time: 2 minutesa sharp, confident piece of new writing When the person you lean on becomes the person you have to leave behind: that’s the quiet devastation at the heart of Stunted, Christine Fang’s new one hour two hander about…