REVIEW: Edward II
Reading Time: 2 minutes“This creative, engaging, and accessible production of Marlowe’s queer historical tragedy dives into themes of loyalty, duty, and betrayal.”
Category ★★★½☆
REVIEW: Private Lives
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Royal Exchange’s production is well-paced and joyful What goes on behind closed doors? How do you treat your spouse when nobody else is around? Does love unavoidably cause insanity? Noël Coward’s 1930 comedy Private Lives reveals…
REVIEW: Just Enough Madness & Caught Again in the Net of Rebirth
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwo performances centring around the theme of motherhood, especially in relation to loss and societal expectations of women, told through the medium of Indian dance and both produced by MILAP, the UK’s leading Indian Arts and Culture company.
REVIEW: In Some Dark Valley
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Some Dark Valley: The Testimony of Reverend Brand is a solo performance for theatre, written and performed by Robert Bailey, and directed by Billy Siegenfeld. The 65-minute show confronts the audience with a spirit visitation from a circuit preacher in 1870’s Appalachia.
REVIEW: St John Passion
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne week before Easter, at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment presented St John Passion under the direction of Johanna Soller, which also marked her London debut.
REVIEW: Sea Shanties
Reading Time: 2 minutesSea Shanties was a one-off performance at The Southbank Centre
REVIEW: Solem Quartet & Alice Zawadzki: Different Trains
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is a certain might in music, the way it fills the space, that elusive moment of resonance in a room of strangers. As part of the Memory Unwrapped series at King’s Place, Solem Quartet shows us music in all its might. T
REVIEW: Hung Dance’s Push and Pull
Reading Time: 2 minutesfinely controlled Push and Pull by Taiwanese choreographer Lai Hung-chung is a piece intends to explore resilience and connection through an encounter between two dancers, Lee Kuan-ling and Lu Ying-chieh, inspired by the principles of Tai Chi and…
REVIEW: Shallowspace Cryotech Feverdream
Reading Time: 4 minutesShallowspace Cryotech Feverdream, the new Trans Sci-Fi body horror play from Elastic Fantastic is an original, insightful and distinctly queer journey into the future.
REVIEW: The Unfortunate Adventures of Pierrot
Reading Time: 3 minutesFrancesca Masini’s The Unfortunate Adventures of Pierrot, presented by The Travelling Players at Omnibus Theatre, is a modern take on a much older form of theatre: Commedia dell’arte.