Reading Time: 2 minutesConsistently bizarre, subtly profound, and breathtakingly beautiful. I hope I never forget The Edge of Space. I close my eyes and I can see it now: red bulbous furniture, blue-faced aliens in white crinolines, flying cheese puffs,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesTim Foley’s Life Out There opened its doors for one night only at Jodrell Bank.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn unapologetically traditional production that celebrates skill, discipline and beauty. Few ballets carry the weight of expectation quite like Swan Lake. More than 145 years after its premiere, Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece remains the benchmark against which classical companies…
Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery generation, it seems, decides it invented uncertainty, and every generation eventually reaches for the same two-thousand-year-old stories to talk itself down.
Reading Time: 2 minutesChristina Lahti fights against misogyny in her autobiographical play, The Smile of Her Christina Lahti’s The Smile of Her is an autobiographical play with a sad list of content warnings. Lahti opens the vault of family secrets,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA spirited and inventive parody of Notting Hill meets the Devil What would happen if Richard Curtis and Dante met? The answer is the Wardrobe Theatre’s mash-up parody Notting Hell, in this remount of their original 2024…
Reading Time: 2 minutesImperfect, but undeniably passionate in what it wants to say. Political satire has rarely felt more relevant, but making it sing, quite literally, is another challenge altogether. Dystopia 26, the latest creation from Justin Skelton, arrives in…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA vibrant and polished biography that offers a great deal of fun. The life of J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial, deeply flawed, and arguably villainous architect of the modern FBI, might not seem like the most obvious…
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn Good Conscience is the latest production from Red Light Theatre. Co-created by Barbara Diesel and Oli Wyatt, who also perform as Phoebe and Elliot, the play explores protest, civil liberties and the emotional toll that comes with standing up for what you believe in.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSimon Stone’s The Oresteia lays bare the trouble with dismembering – the remembering. Hell hath no fury like a mother betrayed. The Greeks understood the power of maternal lovelike no one else – not as a fuzzy,…