Reading Time: 2 minutesA witty, charming tale of ten dates, and a woman who deserves more At midday on a sunny Tuesday, Camden’s Etcetera Theatre welcomes a Gooper DustProduction of 10 First Dates. Starring Laura Shipler Chico as Maggie, the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn entertaining and educational piece of children’s theatre that struggles to adapt fully to the stage. The Olivier Award nominated The Boy At The Back Of The Class has taken the festival theatre stage and, in some ways, offers…
Reading Time: 2 minutesTalk It Out is a performance by the Edinburgh University Showchoir, its members (about 15 people) take turns singing songs from various musicals, some solo and some as group numbers.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPresented by Bloodline Theatre Company, Panacea explores what happens when scientific ambition collides with emotional vulnerability.
Reading Time: 3 minutesJade Winters’ When We Were Us is ultimately a sincere production with a clear intention.
Reading Time: 2 minutesKid Sister, written by Owen Lloyd Richards and directed by Adam Laboda, offers a poignant yet uneven glimpse into the Welsh social care system. Although rooted in its Welsh setting, the play’s themes of belonging, abandonment and family identity resonate far beyond it.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEuripides’ Bacchae premiered in 405 B.C, winning first place in the City Dionysia drama competition. In the two millennia that have followed, the play has been reimagined countless times, in countless different iterations. This particular adaptation brought to life by Company of Wolves interprets the show as a one man monologue, adapted and performed by Ewan Downie.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBased in Nancy, France, Ballet de Lorraine are a company known for flipping the script on the traditions of dance, incorporating modern music and blending styles to bring something new to the artform. In this piece, the choreographers Marco da Silva Ferreira and Adam Linder fully utilise the company’s talents, bringing us two pieces which take inspiration from history and reimagine them for our current times.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFreshers’ week is a great setting for comedy: new identities, awkward friendships, and the chaos of young adulthood colliding for the first time. The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret, written by George Ryder and Brodie Husband and presented by Linnet Theatre at the Jack Studio Theatre, taps into this world with a playful and recognisable energy that initially feels both warm and authentic.
Reading Time: 3 minutesNoughts and Crosses is a gripping modern-day Romeo and Juliet adaptation by acclaimed writer Malorie Blackman is a captivating drama of love, revolution and what it means to grow up in a divided world. Theatre review.