FEATURE: Oh Mary!
Reading Time: 2 minutesA riotous tour-de-force of a performance
Meg Ward
REVIEW: Care
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor the better part of a decade, I worked in care homes. Until this show, I had never seen anything which portrays the experience so accurately, and with such depth of emotion. So often the experience of care work is hidden, an experience we hope we never have to go through. Care homes are places out of sight and mind, until there’s no choice but to cross the threshold. Care is an unflinching, raw look at that world, and what it is like for all sides of the journey; resident, carer, child, grandchild.
REVIEW: Ancient Grease
Reading Time: 2 minutesAncient Grease is a concept so simple and so obviously full of potential, it’s a wonder it’s not been done before. Grease, the beloved classic musical, retold and parodied in the setting of Ancient Greece.
REVIEW: This Grief Thing
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis Grief Thing isn’t a shop. Not really. It’s a space to really sit with our grief. Stepping into This Grief Thing, you might feel unsure about what you are walking into. A shop, about grief? The…
REVIEW: The Undying at Soho Theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutesA poignant look at life – and the choices we do and don’t make to live it. The Undying begins before you’ve found your seat. As you walk into the small black box theatre, incense burns and…
REVIEW: The Grim
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Grim is a three person play performed with minimal set dressing and in two thirty-minute halves with an interval between. It tells the story of two undertakers, one a believer of the supernatural and the other a sceptic who teases his colleague for his superstitions.
REVIEW: The Warp and the Weft
Reading Time: 2 minutesMovement, music, memory and a whole lot of fabric! The Warp and the Weft deftly weaves together different stories about fabric into a performance that is thought-provoking and poignant. This show will make you consider the clothes…