Reading Time: 3 minutesto (un)mark Botticelli’s four-panel cycle of Nastagio degli Onesti, a tale lifted from Boccaccio’s Decameron, depicts a brutal and chilling parable of male violence and coercion against women. Nastagio traps a woman to marry him by staging an eternal…
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome nights feel like a time machine, and Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience leans all the way into that retro ride.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen we think of Oscar Wilde, it’s Earnest, Dorian Gray, An Ideal Husband that spring first to mind – works that cemented him as one of the most influential writers to ever live.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn intense and immersive drama, following the lives of two teenage brothers surviving a childhood of instability and neglect. ‘Yen’ is an immersive dive into the lives of two brothers, aged 13 and 16, who are living…
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Immersive, engrossing and enchanting storytelling”
Reading Time: 2 minutesa wonderful showcase of talent, both known and emerging
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Lady From The Sea at the Bridge Theatre is a stunning lesson in directing, stagecraft, adaptation, and design.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe show offers a rich and diverse portrayal of British South Asian women in a contemporary context. The play is woven with energy, driven by a cast of distinct characters and talented actors that offer unique insights to the stage.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere’s a sly misdirection in the title: you expect a didactical session, a how-to lesson. What Michael Keegan-Dolan offers instead is a memoir in motion, a life distilled into rhythm, anecdote and image. Over eighty minutes the show moves like story: intimate, rough-edged, and stitched together with unexpected tenderness.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere’s a very unique kind of intimacy in Philip Ridley’s one-person plays: the kind that pushes its blade right up to theatre’s jugular and cheekily threatens to bleed it dry if you don’t follow it through to the end.