Reading Time: 2 minutesEngaging and entertaining classical chaos and a mythological rollercoaster that’ll leave you in splits! Charles Court Opera and Jermyn Street Theatre join forces to create Odyssey: A Heroic Pantomime, an epic adventure that takes a wild spin on the literary…
Reading Time: 2 minutes"Uncommon Ground," written and performed by Alison Skilbeck, debuted at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRoberta Jean's "Ways of Being," weaves together a diverse array of rejuvenating influences, drawing from realms such as psychedelic therapy, witchcraft, botany, and insights into the intricate relationship between the brain and hormones.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a courageous attempt to breathe new life into a play deeply embedded in our cultural heritage for over two millennia, the Oxford University Classical Drama Society takes on the formidable challenge of presenting Medea.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAditi Mangaldas' "FORBIDDEN," made its UK premiere at Sadler's Wells last night.
Reading Time: 3 minutesHilariously satirical, camp, and queerfully entertaining Henry Parkman Biggs’ art piece is brought into life by Blair Anderson and Preston Jones at The Other Palace, where the audience gets to enjoy an amalgam of political satire, cabaret,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA monolithic sound system towers over the room. A circular rug creates the playing space. A table, two chairs and two screens are all else that’s needed for Brixton legend Sutara Gayle (aka Lorna Gee) to take us through a journey of heritage and trauma to the other side. And a microphone, of course. The show’s present is set in a spiritual retreat in India where Gayle is undergoing some meditation guided by her brother, Mooji. It is the place in which Gayle is encouraged to allow her past to flood out of her, to realise that the past and future are simply thoughts, and that everything truly exists in the right here and now.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy offering the chance for us to cosplay as advanced Artificial Intelligence in a far-flung future, Psychonaut Theatre’s latest production: The W.I.G of Life allows us to examine humanity’s impact on the world around us by presenting us with the binary choice as to whether to preserve biological life or allow it to extinguish.
Reading Time: 4 minutesI would be remiss to not first cast some light on the incredibly unique journey Death Note has ridden to becoming a musical. In 2003, Death Note, a Japanese manga (comic/graphic novel) series written and illustrated by Tsugumi Obata and Takeshi Obata, respectively, was first published. In 2006, the anime (animation) adaptation first aired in Japan to widespread acclaim. Its popularity was so huge that two live action Japanese films shortly followed. A musical adaptation then premiered in Tokyo in 2015, before touring Japan and opening of a South Korean production. Jumping forward to 2023 we skip over several seasons of the musical in Japan and South Korea, a Netflix live action film and a concert version opening in Russia, and we land in the present day – Death Note: The Musical In Concert opening at the London Palladium.
Reading Time: 3 minutesGlobal warming. Draught. Pollution. War. The ever-present threat of nuclear destruction. Crisis after crisis. The end has been neigh time and time again. Halley’s comet didn’t get us, 2013 arrived and proved the Mayans wrong, and the days of social distancing are over (let's hope for good). But what happens when the apocalypse finally arrives? And what if you’re the only one left?