REVIEW: Flock
Reading Time: 2 minutesLin Coghlan’s award-winning play Flock follows the lives of two siblings, Robbie and Celia, who grow up in the care system.
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REVIEW: The Fairy Queen
Reading Time: 2 minutesHenry Purcell’s semi-opera The Fairy Queen, based loosely on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, was performed at the Cadogan Hall on September 25th as part of the ‘Choral at Cadogan 2024’ programme.
REVIEW: The Truth About Harry Beck
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe London Transport Museum’s underground theatre was a new venue for me, and the perfect place for Andy Burden’s play, The Truth About Harry Beck. which explores the life of the man behind London’s iconic and ubiquitous tube map (although Harry would correct us here, “it’s not a map, it’s a schematic diagram!”)
REVIEW: The Pitch
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten by Philip Catherwood, The Pitch, set in East Belfast, is a charming and sensitive play. One of a spate of recent shows about football (Dear England, Red Pitch), Catherwood’s play distinguishes itself by its careful exploration of Northern Ireland, still so often defined by its sectarian divides, through the rivalry between the predominantly Catholic-played Gaelic Football, and what obsessed fan and unionist Robbie would call football football.
REVIEW: The Shatter Box
Reading Time: 2 minutesKnight, played with dark intensity by Fred Wardale, finds himself locked in a cage in an anonymous interrogation centre, with no idea why. He undergoes brutal interrogation, psychological breakdown, and the fringes of insanity. To escape, he only needs to tell the truth. But what truth is this, who wants it and why, and how on earth is he supposed to discover it?
REVIEW: Magpie
Reading Time: 2 minutesMagpie, written by Andrew Cusack, and produced by Pigs Back Productions. returned to the Old Red Lion Theatre this month as part of the Camden Fringe, following a run in February. Set in 1923, Cusack’s play chronicles the tragic fate of two brothers, Patrick and Michael Murphy, caught on opposite sides of the divide in the wake of the 1916 Easter Uprising, WWI and the birth of the Irish Free State.
REVIEW: ASMF with Federico Colli
Reading Time: 2 minutesFederico Colli is a pianist with a worldwide reputation, winning 1st Prize at the Salzburg Mozart Competition in 2011, the Gold Medal at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2012 and performing with orchestras including the Mariinsky and St Petersburg Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony and BBC Philharmonic.
REVIEW: Scissor Sisters
Reading Time: 2 minutesScissor Sisters ran as part of Riverside Studios Bitesize Festival, on the 16th and 18th of July. Directed by Steph Allison and written by Amy Connery, this play is based on a murder committed in 2005 by two sisters in Dublin.
REVIEW: Still Lives at The Old Waiting Room
Reading Time: 2 minutesProduced by Lost Text/Found Space, this all-female adaptation of Noel Coward’s Still Lives is the final part of Making Connections 24, a series of free and affordable community art events taking place in the Old Waiting Room at Peckham Rye Station.
REVIEW: Hole
Reading Time: 2 minutesHole was originally written and performed by Hannah Morrish at Jermyn Street Theatre in May 2021. This new production, running at the Old Red Lion Theatre until 22nd June, is performed and produced by Central School of Speech and Drama trained Matsume Kai, and directed by David Fairs and Conor O’Kane (co-founders of critically-acclaimed theatre company Golem!).