REVIEW: Foam
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe world premiere of Harry Mcdonald’s Foam, directed by Mathew Iliffe, showcased at Finborough Theatre, follows the story of Neo-Nazi Nicky in the 70’s and 80’s in London.
Category ★★★☆☆
REVIEW: Room 2 Dream
Reading Time: 2 minutesVery rarely do you get offered an opportunity to act like a kid again. When watching Room2Dream, you are all but encouraged to act like one - and it’s fitting, considering the subject matter.
REVIEW: Mother Clap’s Molly House
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Mother Clap's domain, rigid moral boundaries are gleefully transgressed. Ravenhill's consistently clever script blends profane, riotous comedy with surprising tenderness. Dreams, desires, and unfulfilled yearnings haunt every scene - from infertility struggles to giving deliriously vivid life to our most lurid fantasies through the brilliant use of flowing silk drapery framing the stage.
REVIEW: Metamorphosis
Reading Time: 2 minutesMetamorphosis at Camden People’s Theatre, devised and curated by Nina Rosaline Brostrøm, invites us into the telling of cyclical life on Earth with transformative eye-catching costumes. Exhibited here, we watch three small stories of transformation and literal metamorphosis through physical theatre, ambient music and movement.
REVIEW: London Zoo
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten and directed by Farine Clarke, London Zoo stages its third iteration at the Southwark Playhouse Borough. The play centres on a UK newspaper conglomerate’s internal trouble as pressure mounts on the print media industry
REVIEW: Ghost Fish & Redacted Theatre Company
Reading Time: 2 minutesBack for its sixth iteration, the Edinburgh International Improv Festival is here to charm, entertain and mildly confuse. Taking place over four days, it has shows, workshops and jams. The 6-7pm performance on Saturday evening introduced us to two companies, Ghost Fish, for Glasgow and Redacted (formerly Drunk) Theatre Company, from LA.
REVIEW: The Land of Lost Content
Reading Time: 2 minutesLand of Lost Content is an autobiographical coming of age story written by Henry Madd, and directed by Nic Connaughton. The show is performed by Madd alongside co-star Marc Benga, playing Henry’s boyhood friend Jake.
REVIEW: Frankenstein
Reading Time: 3 minutesExperimental theatre company Imitating The Dog have transformed the Oxford Playhouse stage into an immediately striking fusion of theatre and technology, the perfect backdrop for modern Gothic retellings.
REVIEW: INK
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis was my main question throughout this piece. Papaioannou (an erstwhile painter before his illustrious career as a director, choreographer and performer) creates beautiful images, awesome tableaus onstage before allowing them to crumble, or in this case melt away. The stage is set under a fair few inches of water which keeps coming for most of the show. Papaioannou, as the Dressed Man is sat contemplatively, spinning a bowl of water, allowing it to spill out again. Eventually Šuka Horn crawls on as the Nude Man and disrupts this peaceful, soggy solitude. What follows borders on erotic, tender, loving and eventually violent, traumatic and sad. Outstanding sound design from David Blouin and intelligent and effective lighting from Lucien Laborderie and Stephanos Droussiotis illuminate the performance which verges on the edge of contemporary dance without ever plunging deeper into it.
REVIEW: A Star Next To The Moon
Reading Time: 2 minutes"A Star Next to the Moon" emerges as a transcendent opera, a testament to the nearly two-decade labour of composer Stephen McNeff and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama's commitment to presenting innovative works