Reading Time: 3 minutesPurcell’s Dido and Aeneas is an unmistakably odd work. Its themes — love, fate, supernatural betrayal and death — are epic, yet they unfold on an intimate scale, fusing French, Italian and English musical traditions. Then there is the plot: a whiplash-inducing concoction of classical myth, tragic love story and witchy hijinks, all culminating in a final aria that delivers a genuine gut punch. And all this takes just over an hour.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Some Dark Valley: The Testimony of Reverend Brand is a solo performance for theatre, written and performed by Robert Bailey, and directed by Billy Siegenfeld. The 65-minute show confronts the audience with a spirit visitation from a circuit preacher in 1870’s Appalachia.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBurns Night, a celebration of the varied, romantic and often irreverent work of Scottish poet Robert Burns, always seems to arrive at exactly the right moment.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCollective Fringe returns with its opening Scratch Night: an evening of six new short plays presented as 20-minute excerpts. Just as countless early-career writers and performers have cut their teeth on London’s scratch-night scene — Michaela Coel, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Richard Gadd among them
Reading Time: 2 minutesBased on real events, the critically acclaimed Bag of Beard Theatre bring you the unheard and undead tale of ‘The Highgate Vampire’ at the Omnibus Theatre.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Imagine Saw, if it came with party games and a Billy Ray Cyrus soundtrack.” “Are we in Hell?” asks Mitchell. It’s not an unreasonable question — trapped in a mysterious room, he is blindfolded, bound to stranger…