Reading Time: 2 minutesA hardcore tech and aesthetic art installation experience absent of something exciting and new. Adapted from Olga Ravn’s 2021 Booker-shortlisted sci-fi novel, The Employees marks Polish theatre director Łukasz Twarkowski’s UK debut. Little doubt, featuring hallmarks of…
Reading Time: 2 minutesBirmingham Royal Ballet's Nutcracker is a gem for London audience. Directed by David Bentley, it transforms the Royal Albert Hall into Clara's dreamlike fantasia.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Your most horrifying experience of direct address for 85 minutes” Devised and performed by Cathy Naden and Seke Chimutengwende and directed by Tim Etchells, If All Else Fails brings the curtain down on Forced Entertainment’s 40th anniversary celebrations.…
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Forced Entertainment’s naughty love letter to theatre” Two actors onstage: one as a restaurant customer, the other as a waiter, pouring wine into a glass. After a taste, the glass overflows, spilling wine across the table. The…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA count's daughter seduces her father's footman, resulting in the ruin of three lives: her own, the footman’s, and his wife's. Written in 1888, Strindberg's play Miss Julie explores the power dynamics between classes and genders.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWell received by millions, The Rest Is History is a popular podcast that delves into fascinating historical events and figures with a lively, conversational approach. This time at the Royal Albert Hall, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the lives of two most famous composers throughout history: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow does it feel to fall from a trapeze, suffering a spinal cord injury that leaves you paralysed? For the ordinary, it's already unimaginable; let alone for an acrobatic dancer. Yet, having lived through this experience, dancer and choreographer Diana Niepce recounts her journey of recovery in her latest solo work, The Other Side of Dance.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDeveloped from her solo piece Hatched in 2007, Mamela Nyamza's Hatched Ensemble questions and confronts this legacy, eventually transformed into a celebration of South African culture and dance traditions.
Reading Time: 2 minutes21 classical masterpieces in 1 minute? That's just the least of what to expect from the acclaimed musical clowns Släpstick in their recent award-winning show, Schërzo—a delightful and hilarious mashup of well-known classical pieces by Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Brahms, and many more.
Reading Time: 2 minutesChoreographed by Qudus Onikeku and presented by Dance Consortium, Re:INCARNATION endeavours to bring about Nigerian culture and the vibrance of Lagos - the metropolis of West Africa - to the UK audience.