REVIEW: (the) Woman
Reading Time: 2 minutes(the) Woman is a play by Jane Upton, produced by New Perspectives and Royal & Derngate, Northampton. It depicts the challenges new mothers face in regaining their sense of self.
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REVIEW: Thanks for Having Me
Reading Time: 4 minutesThanks For Having Me, playing at the King’s Head Theatre, follows two young men who lean on each other’s own brands of dating advice.
REVIEW: LOOKING FOR GIANTS
Reading Time: 2 minutesLooking for Giants holds promise, but has yet to pull new wisdom from the depths of pain it plumbs. As much as Looking For Giants —- a one-woman show playing at the King’s Head Theatre after a…
REVIEW: Miracle on 34th Street
Reading Time: 2 minutesA visually enchanting yet narratively scattered reimagining of Miracle on 34th Street at HOME Manchester blends holiday magic with structural and tonal inconsistencies.
REVIEW: I WISH
Reading Time: 2 minutesLe Gateau Chocolat’s I WISH, co-created with Rachel Bagshaw and featuring music and lyrics by Seiriol Davies, is an ambitious reimagining of classic fairy tales like Snow White, Cinderella, and Peter Pan.
REVIEW: THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY: A CABARET EVENING
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe World of Yesterday is a noble homage to an accomplished writer, whose life was marred by tragedy The World of Yesterday: A Cabaret Performance, directed by Anya Ostrovskaia, is a new piece of theatre, which features…
REVIEW: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Reading Time: 3 minutesSex and subterfuge are the weapons of the conniving Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Christopher Hampton’s 1985 adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’s 1792 novel of the same name. Scheming their way through the nobility of a pre-revolution France, the Marquise and Vicomte play Cupid, luring lovers into dangerous liaisons (see what I did there?), pulling the wool over their eyes before the rug out from under them. Among their victims are the young ingénue Cécile de Volanges, and Madame de Tourvel — the latter of whom proves the Vicomte’s downfall, as one can only play so long with the flames of passion before they too get burned.
REVIEW: The Sculptor
Reading Time: 3 minutesNestled in the Banshee Labyrinth, described as Scotland’s most haunted pub, The Sculptor makes up one of the performances at Edinburgh’s Horror Festival, a 4 day mini-Edinburgh Fringe, entirely focused on the grisly and macabre.
REVIEW: Good Girl
Reading Time: 2 minutesGood Girl, presented as part of the Bloomsbury Festival, offers a radical and tender reimagining of womanhood and family, following Suhana, Padma, and Brinda as they navigate the final weeks of Suhana’s long-anticipated pregnancy.
REVIEW: Autumn
Reading Time: 2 minutesReleased in the aftermath of 2016’s referendum, Ali Smith’s Autumn was celebrated as the first ‘post-Brexit’ novel, having its finger firmly on the pulse of modern British society.