REVIEW: Storms, Maybe Snow
Reading Time: 3 minutesMiranda Lapworth’s Storms, Maybe Snow is built on familiar but time-tested foundations.
Category ★★☆☆☆
REVIEW: Faustine: A Dissertation. A Confession. A Mental Breakdown
Reading Time: 2 minutesAll bark and no bite, risky but predicatable A musical spiral into madness as an PhD student makes a deal with the devil for ground academic success, sounds like a chaotic, exciting and horrifying examination of academic…
REVIEW: None of Them Will Get Out Alive
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen we hear murder mystery, a very specific image springs to mind. Between The Mousetrap, Poirot, Knives Out, The Play That Goes Wrong, and even Cluedo, the genre has carved out a well-loved and recognisable formula– one that artists continue to lean into simply because it works.
REVIEW: The Beautiful Future Is Coming
Reading Time: 3 minutesShortly after leaving The Beautiful Future Is Coming at The Traverse Theatre yesterday, my credit card was declined on the 27 Lothian bus. I tapped my phone again and again, but to no avail.
REVIEW: Kát’a Kabanova at Glyndebourne
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Beautiful soprano notes and laboured imagery cannot save a problematic portrayal of women” Although I wouldn’t call myself an opera fan, I admire the athleticism of the singers and quite enjoy the heightened melodrama. Carmen is one…
REVIEW: Londongrad at Camden’s People Theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutes“This political comedy is unfortunately frenetic without focus.” I knew something was suspicious when the girls behind me found literally every line hilarious. This show, Londongrad, had all the subtlety of a brick to the head. Ostensibly,…
REVIEW: Make It Happen
Reading Time: 2 minutesMake It Happen is James Graham’s latest stab at revitalizing the oft-forgotten zeitgeists that deeply underpin our present sociopolitical moment.
REVIEW: Lost Property
Reading Time: 2 minutesComedy and drama fail to mesh in a show that asks an interesting question, but never answers it Contained within a single tram journey, Lost Property is acomic monologue about Alice (Amelia Dunn), who has ‘lost’ her…
REVIEW: CUL-DE-SAC
Reading Time: 2 minutesSoaring Start, Sinking Finish: CUL-DE-SAC Loses Its Way
REVIEW: Rise and Fall
Reading Time: 2 minutesPromising concept but a disappointing execution