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: Tristan & Yseult
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou wouldn’t expect a grand, sweeping tale of medieval romance to begin with a welcome into “The Club of the Unloved”, a cagoule-clad, binocular-toting crew of lonely hearts who spy on both performers and audience through their binoculars. But in Kneehigh and Emma Rice’s Tristan and Yseult, the silly intertwines with the tragic in a rambunctious cabaret.
REVIEW: Flamenc Oh!!
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis production manages to successfully blend the technical brilliance of flamenco with the physical comedy of pantomime and the Spanish passion of telenovela drama. Flamenc Oh!! tells the tale of a family whose story feels as much in keeping thematically with any of Federico García Lorca’s masterpieces.
REVIEW: Three Short Ballets
Reading Time: 2 minutesAt the Linbury Theatre, Northern Ballet presents a new work and two revivals so different in tone as to suggest three separate evenings, though the dancers navigate deftly from one to the other.
REVIEW: Measure for Measure
Reading Time: 3 minutesMeasure for Measure at Riverside Studios is Shakespeare’s great problem play; in the city-state of Vienna ruled by Duke Vincentio, the Duke chooses to leave his puritanical deputy Angelo in his authority during his absence.
REVIEW: Madonna on the Rocks
Reading Time: 2 minutesMadonna on the Rocks is a visceral, beautiful, hilarious call to arms. A neon-lit menty-b at the Stay and Play.
REVIEW: Two Names, That Meet and Part
Reading Time: 3 minutesNow in its fifth year, the PALART Festival brings with it a vibrant offering of Palestinian stories, this time at the Pleasance Theatre. In addition to supporting - through opportunities for development of new work - Palestinian artists in the UK, the PALART Collective seeks to push back against mainstream media’s growing exclusion and erasure of Palestinian narratives.
REVIEW: Murder Before Evensong
Reading Time: 2 minutesPaul Hart returns to the Watermill Theatre with Murder Before Evensong, a world premiere stage adaptation of Reverend Richard Coles’ bestselling mystery novel.
REVIEW: JERKER
Reading Time: 2 minutesFirst written 40 years ago by pioneering gay playwright Robert Chesley, JERKER serves as an intimate historical snapshot of 1980s San Francisco.
REVIEW: The Standard of Living
Reading Time: 3 minutesA brand new world-premiere play, The Standard of Living, from the Olivier Award-winning playwright, James Graham (Punch, Dear England, Labour of Love) explodes into the West End for a strictly limited 12-week run.