REVIEW: Saving Britney at Underbelly George Square
Reading Time: 2 minutesShereen Roushbaiani’s one woman show Saving Britney interrogates this question through examining the obsession with Britney Spears that defined her adolescence.
Category ★★★½☆
REVIEW: Age
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo former best friends run into each other at the airport. One, off on a family holiday, is perpetually tired and “smelling faintly of vomit”; the other is headed on an all-expenses-paid business trip to Amsterdam.
REVIEW: Cutlass
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom Will Harley (Radio 4/CBBC/ITV) comes Cutlass. Set during the golden age of pirateering, Captain Springsmile Jack has been caught, tried and is due to hang in the morning. However, his redemption quickly begins to unravel, revealing that this anti-hero may have more depth (and heart) than first thought.
REVIEW: Rika’s Rooms
Reading Time: 2 minutesRika’s Rooms is a one woman play based on the life of the playwright Gail Louw’s own mother, whose extraordinary life is borne of vast historical events that traumatised swathes of humanity.
REVIEW: I Can Die Too
Reading Time: 2 minutesI Can Die Too makes its world premiere at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, featuring a creative set and an interesting storyline: a play-within-a-play with musical numbers throughout.
REVIEW: The Provy Wummin
Reading Time: 3 minutesNot groundbreaking but The Provy Wummin is bound to make you laugh and the singing is next-level The Provy Wummin is an interesting snapshot into 1970s life for women in Glasgow. Set to a score of hits…
REVIEW: The Smile of Her
Reading Time: 2 minutesChristina Lahti fights against misogyny in her autobiographical play, The Smile of Her Christina Lahti’s The Smile of Her is an autobiographical play with a sad list of content warnings. Lahti opens the vault of family secrets,…
REVIEW: NOTTING HELL
Reading Time: 2 minutesA spirited and inventive parody of Notting Hill meets the Devil What would happen if Richard Curtis and Dante met? The answer is the Wardrobe Theatre’s mash-up parody Notting Hell, in this remount of their original 2024…
REVIEW: After My Breath / Eden 2.0: A Double Bill
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo thirty-minute chamber operas, two very different registers of climate anxiety, one earnest, one arch. Together they make for an efficient, occasionally uneven, but never dull hour at the Arcola.
REVIEW: Searching Blue (寻蓝)
Reading Time: 2 minutesengaging, enchanting and vibrant” Created and directed by Kuik Swee Boon, founder of Singapore’s T.H.E Dance Company, in collaboration with Malaysian sound artist Kent Lee, Searching Blue is a site-specific physical performance exploring spirituality, community, the relationship between human…