REVIEW: We Will Hear The Angels
Reading Time: 3 minutesMagnetic North’s We Will Hear the Angels focuses on the effects of alienation of an urban landscape on five isolated individuals.
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REVIEW: Preview Screening: Future Acts
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe National Theatre of Scotland and BBC Scotland have collaborated on the production of 6 new short films that explore Scotland’s future.
REVIEW: Eurydice: Lost in the Underworld
Reading Time: 3 minutesGutter Theatre’s Eurydice at Assembly Roxy is an ambitious retelling of Sarah Ruhl’s modern take on the Greek myth. For anyone unfamiliar, the story follows Eurydice, who dies on her wedding day and enters the underworld, where she meets her father and tries to remember who she was in life.
REVIEW: Hay Fever
Reading Time: 2 minutesWinsomely delivered by a beautifully balanced cast, this Hay Fever finds fresh life in Coward’s comic rhythms Noël Coward’s family of attention-seeking creatives turns a few house guests into unwilling participants in its private drama, and Emily…
REVIEW: Ben Hart: Hex
Reading Time: 3 minutesMagic has always held a particular appeal. Not knowing how it’s done is, for many, rather the point. So there’s no need to explain exactly what Ben Hart does in Hex, except to say that watching him very closely doesn’t help.
REVIEW: Portrait of Black Britain
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe highly anticipated Portrait of Black Britain returned to Manchester on October 1st at Aviva Studios. Originally commissioned in 2021, the exhibition featured 116 photographs of Black British people and was displayed in Manchester Arndale before travelling south to Bluewater. The collection has now expanded to over 200 portraits of Black British people from all walks of life.
REVIEW: Fences
Reading Time: 3 minutesAssociate partner of the Oxford Playhouse, Headlong, offer a complex and brooding take on August Wilson’s 1985 classic play, Fences.
REVIEW: A Mirror
Reading Time: 3 minutesSam Holcroft’s 2023 dystopian censorship play A Mirror follows the inner workings of the Ministry of Culture, the propagandist arm of the reigning totalitarian regime.
REVIEW: Love Without Borders: A Journey in Three Chapters
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe evening opened with an introduction from mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina and pianist Jonathan Palmer Lakeland, who explained how the programme's theme had evolved.
REVIEW: Extremism
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs someone who attended an inner-city state school where the PREVENT campaign was in operation, often right under our noses, I was keen to see this iteration of Anders Lustgarten’s play, Extremism, which attempts to grapple with the shortfalls and harm caused by the PREVENT campaign.