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REVIEW: I Didn’t Know I Was Polish

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis show is a 1 hour love letter to Europe without sycophancy. It explores the notion, so familiar to a lot of us, that we can often feel culturally within and without. What does it mean to be “from” somewhere anyway? It’s like if Agnѐs Varda poppedinto the passport office: bureaucracy, but make it art.

REVIEW: EM The Master

Reading Time: 3 minutesAs I settled into the intimate atmosphere of the Charing Cross Theatre, I couldn’t help but feel the Cabaret offerings in the small area of Embankment were stacked: KitKat Klub to my left at the Playhouse, Dita Von Teese to my right at the Emerald. Here I was nestled in the superbly capable hands of emerging young artist EM the Master. 

REVIEW: Diagnosis

Reading Time: 3 minutesA shrewd examination of the dehumanization of vulnerable people set in a dystopian London Placed in a dystopian near future London, Diagnosis is premised on authority’s ability, or rather inability, to comprehend information from an unusual source.…