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.
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.
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.
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…
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,…
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…
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.
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…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA navigation of a touching childhood friendship and figuring out what it is to be a man
Reading Time: 2 minutesSardonic, Suspenseful, Surreal The Oxford Playhouse Ault Company (OPAC) found a truly fascinating piece to work with. The Oxford Playhouse was transformed as a venue from its usual proscenium arch into a traverse stage, offering an intriguing…