Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s 1941, a couple of months before the Attack on Pearl Harbor, and G Company are stationed at the Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. It’s no surprise that James Jones’s original 1951 novel, From Here To Eternity, was heavily censored by his publisher - it’s a story about power, masculinity, gay men in the army, sanctioned bullying, and the effects of war.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s 1928. Lila is all alone in a hospital for the criminally insane. Without any support, she is forced to face her secrets and the darkness of her past that led to her imprisonment “Packed with playful poetry and vivid trauma,” says the description, though this one-woman show from Shea Donovan perhaps struggles with the latter claim.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a time when there are many reasons to feel frustrated, lost and despairing, there isn’t a much better remedy than South African Road Trip to provide, as its subtitle reveals, Good Hope.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTango is Argentina’s most popular dance, and it’s easy to see why. It’s passionate and intense, fiery yet elegant, explosive yet precise.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis production of Georg Kaiser's The Coral, directed by Emily Louizou and presented by Collide Theatre, is a solid and engaging work.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Gretchen Question begins with audience interaction. Don’t worry, we’re told, it’s the only time it happens in the show. Relaxed by Max Barton’s charming introduction, we settle in for an evening travelling across time.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s Gigi Star’s 27th year and her Saturn is returning (a.k.a a period of challenging transformation is on the way). From the stars we travel with her down into the depths of Hell as she battles her doubt and seeks to reclaim her voice.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCabaret Havana is set across two times and places. We begin in a dystopian future, where in the year 2033, all arts students are forced to give up their dreams and train for jobs which are more ‘productive’.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBerlin is billed as a “dark comedy […] that explores grief, toxic masculinity and betrayal.” The story, inspired in part by the suicide of Ian Curtis, is the reuniting of a once-prominent britpop band after the death of their lead singer three years earlier.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 18-25 Bush Young Company promises an explosive debut, and certainly delivers. It had been a while since I’d been to such an electric piece of theatre, to a show provoking riotous laughter, pensive nods and even cheers of recognition.