Reading Time: 2 minutesA charming tale of community, hope and the triumph of young love. Missouri is a new coming-of-age tale from acclaimed film and television director EvanEnderle. This week, at the Hackney Loft, Enderle debuted the text as a…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe most naked penguin clown you’ll ever see!
Reading Time: 2 minutesNot your typical improv show! Talking People brought their one-night only, improvised performance of The Interview to the Bush theatre on the 19 of September. The concept is simple, three women are about to be interviewed by…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs part of the BFI’s ‘The Cinematic Life of Boxing’ season, a screening of Million Dollar Baby (2004) was followed by a Q&A with broadcaster and former athlete Jeanette Kwakye
Reading Time: 2 minutesArchivist William Fowler and BFI programmer Justin Johnson have curated a
wonderfully varied roster showcasing the campest, sexiest and trashiest of 20th century cinema.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten and directed by LeCoq and RADA trained Tommaso Giacomin, The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin is labelled an ‘absurdist, existential examination… marinating in the violence, complicity and paradox of modern life’.
Reading Time: 2 minutes90 minutes of wonderful, historically (in)accurate chaos A rousing applause welcomed an energetic foursome of Sam Trotman, Finn Tickel, Caoimhe de Brún and Harrison Macdonald-Taylor to the Studio stage at New Wimbledon Theatre on Friday night for…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe auditorium shivered with antici…pation as the cast of The Rocky Horror Show tour 2024/25 took to the stage of Oxford’s New Theatre.
Reading Time: 2 minutesShe Vanishes in the Air is set up as an open rehearsal; the audience are greeted by the actors who direct them to seats and ensure they scan the barcode that sits on their seat and enter their full name into the voting system. Already, there was an atmosphere of uncertainty. Still, I went ahead and filled out the form. There was an introduction, a Brechtian questioning of the audience and a couple of humourous interactions between the cast. The Old Fire Station’s stage was almost bare, with a row of three chairs in a bench centre stage. The cast stayed on stage for the entirety of the single-act play, and a musician (Mark Taylor) in the rehearsal room, stage left, skilfully providing the live drums and sound effects throughout.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA single, tiny red light floats at the front of the Oxford Playhouse stage in silence. Slowly but surely, movements begin and the music swells; the gloriously Bush-like voice of Sarah-Louise Young fills the room. I’ve never seen Kate Bush live but I can imagine this number was pretty close. Through a gauze, Young twisted and turned and guided the small light to illuminate her body. Finally, in a huge feathered headdress and leotard (obviously a ‘Fish Person’ uniform), Young revealed herself and as the song came to a close, addressed us, creepily, “She’s not here”. The laughter was almost uninterrupted from that point onwards.