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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn intimate, heartfelt journey through the life and lyrics of a musical legend Don Black’s From the Heart was an intimate and heartfelt production, reminiscent of New YorkCity’s cabaret scene. What made the show particularly special was…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThrough spoken word and biting insight, Ryan Dre Sinclair explores thecontemporary obsession with capturing and sharing every moment A man sits in a waiting room, self-conscious and awkward. He trips over a chair, plays with his hands.…