Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s Gigi Star’s 27th year and her Saturn is returning (a.k.a a period of challenging transformation is on the way). From the stars we travel with her down into the depths of Hell as she battles her doubt and seeks to reclaim her voice.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis show is a 2-hour long dance performed and choreographed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker accompanied by Bach’s “The Goldberg Variations” performed by the pianist Pavel Kolesnikov. It had a run at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre for 2 performances - the 6th and 7th of September.
Reading Time: 2 minutesImmersive LDN have turned the clocks back 100 years at their Mayfair hub for their production of The Great Gatsby, directed and adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel by Alexander Wright.
Reading Time: 3 minutesGabriela Flarys portrays an ever changing ambiguous character that works to represent the story of a recently arrived migrant to London.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCabaret Havana is set across two times and places. We begin in a dystopian future, where in the year 2033, all arts students are forced to give up their dreams and train for jobs which are more ‘productive’.
Reading Time: 3 minutesI believe one of the hallmarks of Chekhov’s work is the thinly drawn line between love and hatred, melancholy and absurdity, tragedy and farce.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBerlin is billed as a “dark comedy […] that explores grief, toxic masculinity and betrayal.” The story, inspired in part by the suicide of Ian Curtis, is the reuniting of a once-prominent britpop band after the death of their lead singer three years earlier.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 18-25 Bush Young Company promises an explosive debut, and certainly delivers. It had been a while since I’d been to such an electric piece of theatre, to a show provoking riotous laughter, pensive nods and even cheers of recognition.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis performance of Puccini’s La Boheme by the English National Opera is a stunning rendition of an operatic classic.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe premise is simple, an exploration of love between a man and his best friend's alter ego, Candy the drag queen.