REVIEW: Lanny
Reading Time: 3 minutesBea Roberts’ spirited adaptation of Max Porter’s award-winning novel of the same name paints a picture of the urban-rural divide, the power of storytelling and a search for English identity.
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REVIEW: What’s the F**king Point?
Reading Time: 2 minutesFlawbored’s second show What’s the F**king Point is a sharp and darkly comedic exploration of identity politics and highlights the carelessness in which disabled person are often treated in the healthcare system.
REVIEW: BLAZE FM
Reading Time: 2 minutesVital storytelling that isn’t always on beat Early 2000s. An illegal pirate radio station blasts from a rundown council flat. As the Shutdown Crew navigate the threats from the outside world, they fight for the right to…
REVIEW: APPLICATION 39
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe year is 2040, 8 years before the 39th Olympics. Two young IT workers, Rayyan (James El-Sharawy) and Selma (Sama Rantisi), manage to hack the bid progress and win unexpectedly.
REVIEW: Badgers
Reading Time: 2 minutesBadgers is a haunting and shape-shifting play that captures the ethics of telling a story that isn’t your own, the power of folklore and the grip of family dynamics. Performed alone by its writer, Malaika Kegode and underscored with music by her long-time collaborators Jakabol, we are taken with smooth ease through the play’s twisting turns.
REVIEW: NOTTING HELL
Reading Time: 2 minutesA spirited and inventive parody of Notting Hill meets the Devil What would happen if Richard Curtis and Dante met? The answer is the Wardrobe Theatre’s mash-up parody Notting Hell, in this remount of their original 2024…
REVIEW: Aurora x Through The Noise: Mozart From Memory
Reading Time: 2 minutesMozart’s Symphony No. 41, the ‘Jupiter’, is widely regarded as among the greatest symphonies in classical music - particularly in its use of counterpoint where various melodic lines are combined together.
REVIEW: Life Before You
Reading Time: 2 minutesA thoughtful and emotionally intelligent portrait of mothers, daughters and the distances between them “The cord being cut again”. In Life Before You’s opening moments, we glimpse what is yet to come: the painful severing of a…