Reading Time: 3 minutesLayered with subtext, sharp satire, and thought-provoking questions about Macbeth’s relevance in today’s world. Richard Twyman’s production of Macbeth at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith is steeped in a world of subtext, yet this is paired with…
Reading Time: 2 minutesNOW is a hypnotic reminder that the present is never still—constantly shifting, fleeting, and alive. To mark 25 years of groundbreaking dance-theatre, the Jasmin Vardimon Company revisited and reimagined its most powerful works, weaving them together into…
Reading Time: 2 minutesPart one woman show and part judo demonstration that is unfortunately not a knock-out
Reading Time: 2 minutesA thoroughly interesting premise buoyed further by thoroughly interesting music
Reading Time: 2 minutesA beautiful and relevant show about the power of speaking truth to power
Reading Time: 2 minutesFeel-good cheezefest
Reading Time: 2 minutesA mix-bag of familial frictions Ruth D’Silva’s play Bungalow explores the inner secrets and tensions of an Anglo-Indian family. It follows Agatha (Lydia Bakelmun), a woman returning to her childhood bungalow to handle matters related to her…
Reading Time: 2 minutesTime jumping relationship drama permeates quiet sadness. Time can destroy a relationship. It can also be the tool to heal one. “One Day When We Were Young” is a simple tale of a couple whose time never…
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Am I already being forgotten in posterity?’, the celebrated baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau asked his last pupil in their final lesson before his death in 2012.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Last Laugh, written and directed by Paul Hendy, imagines a night in which famous English comics Eric Morecambe, Bob Monkhouse, and Tommy Cooper are thrown together in a grimy dressing room as they prepare for an unspecified performance.