REVIEW: Be My Cabaret
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhether attending alone or on a date, Be MY Cabaret offered something for everyone. The show was, as expected, a variety piece, with many different acts all centred around the same theme: love.
Category ★★★½☆
REVIEW: Neave Trio
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Kings Place’s Hall One, the Grammy-nominated Neave Trio (Anna Williams on violin, Mikhail Veselov on cello, and Eri Nakamura on piano) presented an intimate journey of music through memory, love and loss.
REVIEW: The Great Wave
Reading Time: 3 minutesNamed after the artwork, The Great Wave is an opera about its creator, Katsushika Hokusai.
REVIEW: Auntie Empire
Reading Time: 2 minutesWalking into the space of Auntie Empire, you are welcomed by Auntie, an over the top clownish personification of the empire. The set and costume evoke a traditional ideal of Britishness: tea caddy, sugar cube earrings and a regality that can only be described as British.
REVIEW: Children of the Sun
Reading Time: 3 minutesGuildhall School of Music and Drama’s revival of Children of the Sun by Maxim Gorky – in Andrew Upton’s celebrated 2013 adaptation – is an ambitious, visually assured production that captures much of the play’s tragicomic restlessness, even if it doesn’t always sustain its dramatic momentum.
REVIEW: Miles
Reading Time: 2 minutesDrawing inspiration from the jazz icon Miles Davis’s music and turbulent life, Miles, an Edinburgh sell-out show in 2025, spotlights multiple dimensions of his story: his relationship with his father, his obsession with boxing, his intense love affairs, and his struggles with drugs.
REVIEW: Go Feral Like the Big Dogs
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn excoriating satire of graduate ambition and corporate greed Recent graduates Alex (Josh Gordon) and Rachel (Maddie Frutig) are fully immersed in the London rat-race, negotiating insurance deals from their high-rise offices. Alongside the early-morning tube journeys…
REVIEW: The Debate: Baldwin vs Buckley
Reading Time: 2 minutesRe-staging the enduring epistemological violence “The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro”. Claimed by James Baldwin at the Cambridge Union Society in 1965. Coming less than a year after the Civil Rights Act…
REVIEW: Varna International Ballet – Swan Lake
Reading Time: 2 minutesSwan Lake is one of the most iconic pieces of ballet for a reason; the score is absolutely faultless.
REVIEW: My Life with Kenneth Williams
Reading Time: 3 minutesKenneth Williams, the famed raconteur with a notoriously prickly personality, would have celebrated his centenary this year.