REVIEW: Anne Boleyn
Reading Time: 2 minutesHoward Brenton's script, first commissioned for Shakespeare's Globe in 2010, refuses the traditional biography to adapt to a ghost story.
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REVIEW: Cellophonics: Wood on the Tracks
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn unconventional string quartet, four cellos deep, going from Purcell to jazz without breaking a sweat! Upstairs at Ronnie’s is lit with warm sodium light and rows of chairs face the same direction, close enough to see…
REVIEW: SUCCUBUS
Reading Time: 2 minutesGeorgina Collins serves men on the menu in a ferociously talented one-woman feast. “I’m so hungry I could eat [my best friend’s ex]” is a line any chronically online zillennial has told their friend, meaning nothing more…
REVIEW: Metamorphoses
Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery generation, it seems, decides it invented uncertainty, and every generation eventually reaches for the same two-thousand-year-old stories to talk itself down.
REVIEW: After My Breath / Eden 2.0: A Double Bill
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo thirty-minute chamber operas, two very different registers of climate anxiety, one earnest, one arch. Together they make for an efficient, occasionally uneven, but never dull hour at the Arcola.
REVIEW: Party at Jackson Wang’s
Reading Time: 3 minutesParty at Jackson Wang's builds a play around the moment that devotion curdles into something closer to a coping mechanism.
REVIEW: Brew Hill
Reading Time: 2 minutes A play about inertia that, in its weaker moments, practises what it preaches There is a particular hazard that attends any play built around the premise that its characters are, by design, difficult to be around. The…
REVIEW: Sleeping Beauty
Reading Time: 2 minutesSparkling costumes, exquisite dancing, and enough fairy dust to enchant an audience of any age.
REVIEW: Interplay
Reading Time: 3 minutesPhoenix Dance Theatre are simply, technically, one of the best companies working in Britain today
REVIEW: A DoL House
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne room. Three people. The system is the fourth.