REVIEW: The Silence of the Lambs
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn its first stage adaptation, written by Gina Gionfriddo and directed by Nikolai Foster, The Silence of the Lambs looks spectacular, but struggles to innovate.
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REVIEW: Waitress
Reading Time: 2 minutesSara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson’s acclaimed and beloved musical ‘Waitress’ bakes up a storm in Glasgow under the direction of Diane Paulus.
REVIEW: 10 LOVES
Reading Time: 2 minutesProduced by Magnifying Glass Theatre as its first show, 10 Loves certainly has an original premise and deserves its place in Lambeth Fringe.
REVIEW: The Hungry Ghost
Reading Time: 2 minutesinsatiable desire The Hungry Ghost can be read as a story of supernatural possession, of disordered eating, or of an insatiable hunger for love. In Mei Leng Yew’s play, these readings continually overlap where the desire for food…
REVIEW: Maya Ricote: Ay Am!
Reading Time: 2 minutesA frozen clown walks out of a fridge. She is visibly feminine, with popped-up boobs and bum, while her bright red knitted dress does little to understate them. She has just realised that she is over 90 years old, yet her frozen body remains perfectly in shape. The story follows her, an actress, as she is called to an audition for a role that could hopefully prevent her from returning to the fridge and being frozen forever—until her journey goes completely out of her control.
REVIEW: The Final Exam: Gao Kao
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Final Exam: Gao Kao turns the Gaokao into a literal battlefield, using physical theatre, projection and stage combat to explore academic pressure, institutional expectation and the idea that exam results can become inseparable from identity.
REVIEW: Franz & Marie
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen Georg Büchner died in 1837, he left Woyzeck unfinished. Its fragmentary nature has invited numerous adaptations over the past century, and Franz & Marie at the Charing Cross Theatre is the latest attempt to give it a shape.
REVIEW: Berliner Ensemble: De Profundis
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Jens Harzer is extraordinary” De Profundis can be read in a plethora of ways. It can be read as Oscar Wilde’s desperate love letter to Bosie (Lord Alfred Douglas), his final profound reflection on art and literature, or…
REVIEW: Do Not Pass Go
Reading Time: 2 minutesDo Not Pass Go is an experimental new production from award winning production company Jordan & Skinner.
REVIEW: Bull
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a performance delivered entirely in BSL with creative captions, Deafinitely Theatre create a viscerally visual power-play of cruelty, in this expressive and tense version of Mike
Bartlett’s Bull.