REVIEW: By Heart
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘By Heart’, devised and delivered by Tiago Rodrigues, is a piece of experimental theatre that invites 10 audience members to partake in a group challenge: to memorise Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30.
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REVIEW: The Importance of Being Earnest
Reading Time: 2 minutesMax Webster’s production of Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ is a reiteration of the same version at the National Theatre last year, which starred Ncuti Gatwa and Hugh Skinner.
REVIEW: First Night At The Proms
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe First Night of the BBC Proms was suitably majestic. The room pulsated with respect and anticipation; as the orchestra prepared to strum and string (and all the other things they do), the reverential silence was palpable.
REVIEW: Philos and Amica Do Time
Reading Time: 2 minutesPhilos and Amica Do Time, starring Leah Aspden and Nathaniel Jones, is an outrageously silly romp through time following two best friends in pursuit of fame and penises, in equal measure.
REVIEW: Talking People (23rd June)
Reading Time: 2 minutesTalking People at the Bush Theatre is a fairly new innovation: a series of improvised evenings amongst a few actors, and their director, Richard Vincent. The genius behind this is Elinah Saleh Franck, the producer.
REVIEW: King of Pangaea at King’s Head Theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutesOverall, however, King of Pangaea is slick, ambitious, and sweet; a lovely little musical that deals with loss through child-like innocence and the transcendence of hope.
REVIEW: Thanks For Having Me
Reading Time: 2 minutesThanks For Having Me, a new play written by and starring a confusingly endearing Keelan Kember, is a naturalistic examination of the politics and culture of dating and hookups in contemporary life, directed by Monica Cox.
REVIEW: Kenrex
Reading Time: 3 minutesPress Night for Kenrex, written and performed by Jack Holden, was received with rapturous cheers and applause, not to mention a standing ovation – although these are handed out so frequently nowadays, they signify little.