REVIEW: Love vs Fear and My Mother’s Prayers
Reading Time: 3 minutes‘Could you please scan this barcode to participate in the interactive element of the show?’ the ticket officer asks as the audience arrives for Love vs Fear and My Mother’s Prayers.
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REVIEW: Crime and Punishment
Reading Time: 2 minutesA young man with a furrowed brow in a shabby, hole-ridden black coat walks slowly across the stage, bent over with the weight of a stone. He stops at one end, pauses; then turns around to walk back again. To adapt one of the greatest novels ever written is a similar task - just when you feel you can rest, another route must be taken, another avenue explored.
REVIEW: Ophelia Gordon: Between the Lines
Reading Time: 2 minutesa celebration of the work of Kapustin, in an evening of classical-jazz innovation Ophelia Gordon’s ‘Between the Lines’ is a recital of the work of Nikolai Kapustin, celebrating this under-appreciated composer. His pieces for solo piano have…
REVIEW: They’ve Stolen Mussolini
Reading Time: 2 minutesDespite multiple portraits hanging on London’s hallowed gallery walls, famous actress, celebrity and
author Mary Robinson has yet to have her contemporary cultural zeitgeist. Enter stage left, Perdita.
Written by Sophie Todd, who also plays the titular protagonist, the first half of the play deals with
Robinson’s youth as a teenager wedded to drunken gambler Thomas Robinson (played by Kevin Martin Murphy). We see her follow him all the way to debtor’s prison with their newborn child Maria where her writing is so popular it neatly pays off their debt and she returns to the stage to be mentored by bringing David Garrick out of retirement. Here she flourishes, although we never really see her on stage.
REVIEW: Rika’s Rooms
Reading Time: 2 minutesRika’s Rooms is a one woman play based on the life of the playwright Gail Louw’s own mother, whose extraordinary life is borne of vast historical events that traumatised swathes of humanity.
REVIEW: The Oresteia
Reading Time: 3 minutesSimon Stone’s The Oresteia lays bare the trouble with dismembering – the remembering. Hell hath no fury like a mother betrayed. The Greeks understood the power of maternal lovelike no one else – not as a fuzzy,…
REVIEW: Luz de Guía
Reading Time: 2 minutesEl Perrete walks onto the stage with purpose, sequined jacket catching the light. The stage is empty save for the other musicians – percussionist Cristóbal Sánchez García, keyboardist Francisco José Suárez Montaño and guitarist Manolín García.
REVIEW: Albatross
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Albatross by Martha Loader, in the Menagerie Theatre Company’s production, the eponymous stuffed bird is a gift from Martin (Patrick Morris) to his new girlfriend Eve (Agnes Lillis), whose kitchen the play is set in.
REVIEW: GS X2: Gabriella Swallow and Giacomo Smith
Reading Time: 3 minutesGS X2 at Ronnie Scott’s, the show born of a collaboration between cellist Gabriella Swallow and clarinettist Giacomo Smith, is a seamless melding of classical and jazz that shows how much both genres can learn from the other. The rest of the ensemble consisted of the acclaimed jazz musicians Joe Webb (piano) and Will Sach (bass).
REVIEW: Dinner
Reading Time: 2 minutesWho doesn’t enjoy drama at a dinner party? When you’re not involved, of course. Unfortunately for the guests at this particular dinner, everyone becomes involved in one way or another, with disturbing, hilarious and dark consequences.