Reading Time: 3 minutesPeople Do, the inaugural production of No More Theatre Company, hits the Refresh button on the monotonous monologue night. Monologue nights in upstairs pub theatres can often be a bit tedious – the main issue being that…
Reading Time: 2 minutesShahid Iqbal Khan’s play explores devotion to life and religion, leaving an engaging impression which wants a deeper character study.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAll that being said, this show tells the (true) story that it wants to tell with good performances, good humour, and all in all a good show.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus and Kana Kawashima delivered a technically exquisite holiday concert in the atmospheric Greyfriars Kirk, though moments of emotional warmth and expressive depth were often missing.
Reading Time: 2 minutes*The King of Broken Things* is a visually inventive and emotionally rich play that explores the fragility of human relationships through the eyes of a lonely child, but its lack of pacing and coherent messaging leaves its audience adrift in a sea of densely packed metaphors.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDon’t walk, run to get your tickets, as per the production’s instructions – this is a theatrical parody with bite. Created by New York-based creative ensemble Recent Cutbacks, Hold Onto Your Butts is exactly what it says…
Reading Time: 3 minutesA dislodged myriad of instrumentation superbly handled by the BBC Philharmonic In an orchestra setting, it is not often you find strings outnumbered by percussion, but with an atmospheric and mercurial piece like Olivier Messiaen’s ‘Des canyons…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Globe Theatre’s Hansel and Gretel, adapted by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage and directed by Nick Bagnall, offers a visually imaginative and occasionally witty take on the classic tale.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTealight is a one man show starring Josh Maughan, written by Maughan and Katie Bourne, and directed by Tobias Abbott and Saskia Mollard.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“This one woman satirical tragedy sits on the cusp of exceptional.” A Trojan Woman is on the edge of brilliant. Sara Carrington’s retelling of the original anti-war play, The Trojan Women, modernizes and recontextualizes the suffering of…