Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Guildhall School of Music presents a performance that is truly site-specific, with 5 unique pieces well deserving of their grand and illustrious setting, and yet like nothing the space has seen before. The organ project is a…
Reading Time: 3 minutesJefta Van Dinther presents a dystopian breakdown of industry and capitalism in this ensemble led project. Brooding and highly captivating, the piece will make you question your own place within the ever moving world. The stage is…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis multimedia, multisensory performance is a delightful exploration of the
power of collaboration and self-expression.'
Reading Time: 3 minutesJenkin delivers a tour-de-force time-slip fantasy, rugged and unkempt as the seas on which it’s set, but with a twinkling heart which floats well above the waterline. Seven years after his seminal BAFTA winning debut Bait, Mark Jenkin returns…
Reading Time: 2 minutesDramatically varied but oftentimes clunky, Three Men’s storybook aesthetic and charming performance are highlights in this otherwise slightly lopsided narrative. Qi Liu plays Fanghua, a lonely shopkeeper who presides over a small but seemingly endless convenience store in Beijing.…
Reading Time: 3 minutesBased in Nancy, France, Ballet de Lorraine are a company known for flipping the script on the traditions of dance, incorporating modern music and blending styles to bring something new to the artform. In this piece, the choreographers Marco da Silva Ferreira and Adam Linder fully utilise the company’s talents, bringing us two pieces which take inspiration from history and reimagine them for our current times.
Reading Time: 3 minutesGarland sets fourth an unwavering theatrical statement in Primal Bog, a show which slices normativity, disembowels commodified self-care and celebrates our inner filth. Writer/performer Rosa Garland walks naked onto a white canvas covered stage. The front row of…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Described as a black comedy “for anyone who has ever struggled to fit in”, Gannet is a part clowning, part monologue piece in which performer/writer Daisy Day, alongside co-writer/director Peggy Pollard, weave a meandering and hilariously convoluted tale of a young bird struggling to make his way in the world.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe latest work from award-winning theatre collective Bag of Beard Theatre, The Highgate Vampire is a parody/spoof retelling of the events surrounding a spate of demonic encounters which terrorised Highgate village in 1969.
Reading Time: 3 minutesTim Crouch’s brave new adaptation of The Tempest is a delightfully confusing production, sure to determine once and for all where the fourth wall is, and how long it can every really stand. When it comes to…