REVIEW: You & It
Reading Time: 2 minutesA smart concept and tragic premise that never quite realise their full emotional weight.
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REVIEW: Memory Keepers
Reading Time: 2 minutesSublime, mesmerizing, and hauntingly beautiful, Memory Keepers is a work that is meant to be felt rather than translated into words.
REVIEW: Groove
Reading Time: 2 minutesGhetto Funk Collective is an Amsterdam-based dance and arts crew dedicated to funk culture. The Ruggeds are world champion b-boys known internationally, including for their appearance in Justin Bieber’s “Where Are U Now” music video
REVIEW: Reset
Reading Time: 3 minutesDownstairs at Bold Theatre in Elephant and Castle, audiences are in for a real treat. Reset, a night of performance vignettes, celebrates not only the three year anniversary of the theatre’s weekly actor gym, but also the joy of embracing uncertainty and change as catalysts for creativity.
REVIEW: Consumed
Reading Time: 2 minutesWinner of the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2022, Karis Kelly’s play Consumed is a pitch-black and twisted comedy of dysfunctional family dynamics, generational trauma and national boundaries.
REVIEW: Last and First Men
Reading Time: 2 minutesNarrated by Tilda Swinton and composed by Jóhann Jóhannsson and Yair Elazar Gotman, and set against the backdrop of Jóhannsson’s film, Neon Dance’s Last and First Men brings together some of the most celebrated names in contemporary performance and design.
REVIEW: Neave Trio
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Kings Place’s Hall One, the Grammy-nominated Neave Trio (Anna Williams on violin, Mikhail Veselov on cello, and Eri Nakamura on piano) presented an intimate journey of music through memory, love and loss.
REVIEW: Miles
Reading Time: 2 minutesDrawing inspiration from the jazz icon Miles Davis’s music and turbulent life, Miles, an Edinburgh sell-out show in 2025, spotlights multiple dimensions of his story: his relationship with his father, his obsession with boxing, his intense love affairs, and his struggles with drugs.
REVIEW: Maggots
Reading Time: 2 minutesMaggot, a new play by Farah Najib, tells the story of a group of loosely connected neighbours who are forced to confront an unusual situation unfolding just beyond their front door.
REVIEW: Aurora Orchestra with Brett Dean & Lotte Betts-Dean
Reading Time: 2 minutesMemory, the experience of the past being retrieved, reconstructed, and relished by the mind, is always about echoes and reverberations across time. It is the mind’s continual rewriting of the past: two points separated in time, yet intersecting and overlapping, reunited by the device of memory.