Reading Time: 3 minutesDo you believe in love at first sight? This question is the headliner of Candy (written by Tim Fraser), which began life as a fifteen minute short at Bunker Theatre in 2018, and over the last five years has been added to and adapted into the full sixty minute one-man show that it is now.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNoah's Flood was similar to the biblical myth: through it, Benjamin Britten, the composer returned to a purer form of art, similar to the Chester Miracle plays from the 14th century when ordinary, untrained performers put together a show for their besotted ones. But the production, similar to the catastrophic event, suffered from a watery chaos of uninspired choices.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCirque - The Greatest Show at O2 Indigo is currently on tour across the UK, produced by James Taylor, the director of Entertainers. Cirque is an incredibly glitzy performance, and has aimed to set itself apart by combining circus with musical theatre. Well-known hits from Broadway and the West End are sung by the cast members in between, and sometimes during, their dancing and circus acts.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn improvised one-act play by improv duo Hamza Mohsin and Jake Migicovsky, together forming Avocado Presents bring this show to The Curtain's Up pub.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten by Jonathan Freedland and directed by Vicky Featherstone, Jews. In Their Own Words runs at the Royal Court Theatre until the 22nd October.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDido’s Bar is a collaboration between director Josephine Burton, playwright Hattie Naylor and composer Marouf Majidi, paralleling Majidi's journey across Europe to find a musical home with Aeneas’ journey from Troy back home to Italy.