REVIEW: Comment is Free
Reading Time: 2 minutesJames Fritz’s play, cOmment is Free, began as a staged reading in 2015 and became an award-winning BBC Radio 4 drama in 2016, and now returns in ETAL’s six-performer adaptation.
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REVIEW: Woodhill
Reading Time: 2 minutes A powerful indictment of prison deaths from the families’ perspective Three men died at HMP Woodhill between 2013 and 2018. Their families’ search for answers drives LUNG’s verbatim dance-theatre piece, back after the chief inspector of prisons…
REVIEW: Dirty Dancing
Reading Time: 2 minutesPure, joyful fun – come for the nostalgia, stay for the dancing Dirty Dancing at the King’s Theatre Glasgow was pure, joyful fun: warm, nostalgic, high-energy and irresistibly feel-good. Set in the summer of 1963, the show…
REVIEW: The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt, France 1940
Reading Time: 3 minutes“A courageous attempt to Arendt through Brechtian techniques” In May 1940, three German Jewish women are arrested at Camp Gurs in France: Hannah Arendt the political thinker, Charlotte Salomon the artist, and Eva Daube the communist. Drawing…
REVIEW: The Love That I’ve Lost
Reading Time: 3 minutesGalentine’s Day is usually sold as a celebration of brunch and unbridled female friendship, but in Morgan Clarice’s The Love That I’ve Lost it is closer to a coping mechanism. Michelle, newly separated,decides to host one in the hope of distracting herself and her family from the men they have lost.
REVIEW: Marriage of Figaro
Reading Time: 2 minutesa wonderfully entertaining production, filled with beautiful singing, clever staging and far more humour Walking into the Oxford Playhouse for Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, I had never seen the opera before and wasn’t entirely sure what to…
REVIEW: Blood of my Blood
Reading Time: 2 minutesA bold exploration of how our ancestry shapes our stories The Jerwood Theatre Upstairs is completely transformed in Joy Nesbitt’s now completely sold-out Blood of my Blood. Set in dual timelines of 1862 and the present day, this…
REVIEW: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Reading Time: 3 minutes“A Production in its Prime with a Script that Doesn’t Hit the Mark” The National Theatre of Scotland’s newest adaptation of Miss Jean Brodie is truly a spectacle. As soon as the audience sits in the auditorium,…
REVIEW: Down to Chance
Reading Time: 3 minutesA surprisingly comedic whirlwind recap of a community coming together in the aftermath of disaster. Ambitious but under-appreciated journalist Genie Chance felt wasted on fluff pieces at the KENI radio station in Anchorage, Alaska, when an unprecedented…
REVIEW: Black Panther in Concert
Reading Time: 2 minutesBlack Panther was gorgeously added to by the Chineke! Orchestra, and is a fabulous experience overall. Black Panther in concert is not just a show, but an experience. The Royal Albert Hall is an absolutely fantastic place…