REVIEW: Via Injabulo
Reading Time: 2 minutesVia Katlehong are an award-winning dance company which began as a community troupe back in 1992.
Category ★★★★½
REVIEW: Brown Boys Swim
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have never been made so acutely aware, in less than 80 minutes, of the fears that haunt the British white middle class.
REVIEW: Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe week before Halloween is a wonderfully atmospheric time for the Liverpool Playhouse theatre to host Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning, a retelling of Bram Stoker’s Dracula written by Mona Pearson and directed by Sally Cookson.
REVIEW: The Barber of Seville
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn enchanting performance and an unexpected comedic delight The Theatre Royal Glasgow recently played host to my very first opera experience, The Barber of Seville, and I must say it was a dazzling revelation. This performance from…
REVIEW: Kin
Reading Time: 3 minutesUnique, profound, and beautifully raw. An experience that will stay with you Kin at Oxford Playhouse is a unique show, performed in multiple languages, that moved most, if not all, of the audience in their own personal…
REVIEW: Squidge
Reading Time: 2 minutesA one-woman show with a lot of heart, a pin-drop performance and writing that tears you apart and stitches you up anew Getting settled into The Cockpit theatre for their monthly evening of new writing, giving their…
REVIEW: Boys From The Blackstuff
Reading Time: 2 minutesI stepped back in time at Liverpool's Royal Court. The Boys From The Blackstuff adaption transported me to a not-so-far-away past, haunted by the Thatcher reforms. The play shed light on the harsh realities of unemployment, which was jokingly referred to as a "growth industry", and how it particularly affected those from industrial backgrounds.
REVIEW: Great Expectations
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt's hard to tell how many times a timeless tale can be retold without losing its appeal and becoming predictable or dull. However, Tanika Gupta's ambitious adaptation of the Dickensian chronicles of the British class convinced me that great stories can still be relevant today if they carry a message that resonates with current societal issues.
REVIEW: In Other Words
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is a phenomenally good show. In many ways, it’s incredibly simple. It explores the effects of Alzheimer’s on one couple, Arthur and Jane, and tracks their journey from meeting to “the incident” to dementia’s inevitable conclusions while demonstrating the unbelievably powerful effect of music. The set is mostly bare—two old armchairs and a lamp—and it’s only a two-hander, yet the show succeeds in building out its world and packing its punches.
REVIEW: Escape from the Golden Hinde
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn a sunny Sunday afternoon me and my crew of 5 dastardly pirates jumped on board the Golden Hinde, a a near-perfect reconstruction of the ship Francis Drake sailed around the world in the 1570s, that's currently moored at St Mary Overie’s Dock on the banks of the Thames at London Bridge