REVIEW: The Pianist
Reading Time: 2 minutesWładysław Szpilman, the Polish-Jewish composer and Holocaust survivor whose memoir sits at the centre of this new movie-to-musical adaptation of The Pianist, never wrote a musical.
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REVIEW: A Mirror
Reading Time: 3 minutesSam Holcroft’s 2023 dystopian censorship play A Mirror follows the inner workings of the Ministry of Culture, the propagandist arm of the reigning totalitarian regime.
REVIEW: Two Names, That Meet and Part
Reading Time: 3 minutesNow in its fifth year, the PALART Festival brings with it a vibrant offering of Palestinian stories, this time at the Pleasance Theatre. In addition to supporting - through opportunities for development of new work - Palestinian artists in the UK, the PALART Collective seeks to push back against mainstream media’s growing exclusion and erasure of Palestinian narratives.
REVIEW: CAUSA: THE TRIAL OF THE ILLEGAL POTATO
Reading Time: 3 minutesA clever gem of the Lambeth Fringe that uses a sweet dose of absurdism (and a delightful bunch of spuds) to explore themes of immigration, climate change, and belonging If you don’t know a lot about potatoes…
REVIEW: Romeo and Hamed
Reading Time: 3 minutesA queer, interracial, interfaith exploration of a Shakespeare classic made up of almost entirely original verse, Romeo & Hamed is a bold and slick production. Sinew and Slime and Pie Productions present Scott Horgan’s debut play this week at Riverside Studios, starring its writer along with Anish Roy as the two leading men. Yes, Juliet has been replaced with Hamed, a young Muslim man, and he brings new dimensions to an already timeless story. The play is written in ‘lyrical verse’, intermittently rhyming and placing us firmly in modern day Croydon.
REVIEW: Lianna Holston: Haha, Oh God 2.0 @ Gilded Balloon
Reading Time: 2 minutesLianna Holston is back with her sophomore Fringe show, Haha, Oh God 2.0, and she is ready to make everything about your non-existent sex life okay.
REVIEW: The Singer @ The Traverse
Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten and directed by Cora Bissett, with music and lyrics by beloved Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, The Singer is an hour and a half of not only great music but also top-notch storytelling.
REVIEW: This Shining Night
Reading Time: 3 minutes'Singing a lot of African American choral music with an almost-exclusively white choir probably warrants mentioning the word “slavery” at least once.'
REVIEW: After Party
Reading Time: 2 minutesMorna Young’s newest play about assisted dying dives headfirst into a sticky spider web of a topic but doesn’t get far with its surface-level characters. Vivienne Blackwood decides to die on the night of her 80th birthday…
REVIEW: Sauna Theatre: Aufguss x Nils Frahm
Reading Time: 2 minutesTheatre at its best. For one, I’ve now had the immense privilege of seeing, within the span of just a few days, the work of several Aufguss masters in the Sauna Theatre at Summerhall Arts. As such,…