REVIEW: Thelma & Louise
Reading Time: 2 minutesA musical adaptation that misses the mark
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REVIEW: Words and Music
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe BBC Philharmonic Orchestra’s Words & Music: The Number 10 concert collates literature, poetry and classical music into a singular performance for an evening that explores the relationship between all three mediums of art. Presented as part of the BBC’s renowned Contains Strong Language festival, which returns from 24th to 27th September, the concert marks ten years since the festival was first broadcast, with the programme taking inspiration from the number ten in homage to this key milestone.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Helen Goodman
Reading Time: 3 minutesToy Soldier is a play about family and survival set against the backdrop of one of the most harrowing conflicts in modern history. We sat down for an exclusive interview with Helen Goodman, Co-Writer & Director of the Toy Soldier, to discuss the upcoming performance.
REVIEW: Jane Eyre
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.
FEATURE: Lower Marsh Arts Club launches new £8,000 artist guarantee and festival
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…
IN CONVERSATION WITH: John Webber
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.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Nicky Allpress
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.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Yoanna Walden
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.
FEATURE: Back Through the Gates of Troy: Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City Returns on Screen
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…
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Scott Horagan
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.