Reading Time: 2 minutesDirector Mya Kelln’s new adaptation of Ibsen’s classic play reimagines Hedda Gabler in a stark, minimalist style. Like much of Ibsen’s work, this 1891 play explores in lurid detail how people can damage one another, as the bored and disenfranchised newlywed Hedda causes waves of destruction in each of her relationships.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night at HERE at Outernet, I witnessed a unique fusion that closed this year’s Pride with a spectacular bang: Classical Drag. Fronted by conductor Oliver Zeffman and Creative Producer Jack Cullen, this event was a groundbreaking blend of classical music and drag performance—a concept so unconventional, promising a lot, and almost delivering it but not quite.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEach year since 1995, the National Theatre’s Connections Festival has commissioned new plays for performance by youth theatre groups across the country. Titas Halder’s Replica is a fresh, urgent take on the power of misinformation, told through the story of a school trip gone wrong.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDebuting at Queer Fest on Thursday 20th was Lily Sheldon’s historicization of the author Marguerite Radclyffe Hall’s trial for obscenity.
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs the lights go up, we meet Clara, (Saskia Mollard) - a young woman, defeated, broke and lonely. She is fed up with living in survival mode and decides to change her circumstances for the better. She enlists herself into a programme where you swap out your healthy organ in exchange for someone else’s no matter what condition the other organ is in. Clara convinces herself that it is about the money and puts her moral judgments to one side.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Trials and Passions of Unfamous Women is a play exploring the real stories of women who faced the criminal justice system in the UK and was commissioned by the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) and Clean Break.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHole was originally written and performed by Hannah Morrish at Jermyn Street Theatre in May 2021. This new production, running at the Old Red Lion Theatre until 22nd June, is performed and produced by Central School of Speech and Drama trained Matsume Kai, and directed by David Fairs and Conor O’Kane (co-founders of critically-acclaimed theatre company Golem!).
Reading Time: 2 minutesStoneCrabs Theatre’s Joe Carstairs makes its way to Omnibus Theatre’s 96 Festival this June. The piece tells the story of queer ancestor Joe Carstairs, in all their tricky complexity.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSuit in Three Keys is a trilogy of plays written by Noël Coward and first presented in London in 1966. You might know Coward from his earlier works, for the most part comedies, such as Private Lives, Blithe Spirit and Present Laughter, all three of which have graced the stages of the West End in recent years. This trilogy, written much later in his career, consists of a double-bill Shadows of the Evening and Come into the Garden, Maud, alongside full-length production A Song at Twilight. The three were written to be watched together, and you can catch the lot at The Orange Tree Theatre until 6th July.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSALT, a new play by writer and director Beau Hopkins, aims to create a unique performance style to immerse audiences in the world of a slowly unfolding family horror in a 1700’s fishing village. Man Billy (Mylo McDonald) and his mother, the Widow Pruttock (Emily Outred), live on the outskirts of this isolated community, where they meet Sheldis (Bess Roche), an alluring traveller with a dark past who threatens their intense and sheltered family relationship.