REVIEW: Mums
Reading Time: 2 minutesMums, the debut production from Psychonaut Theatre, an experimental group of internationally diverse performers, is a deeply captivating exploration of what it means to lose, and what it means to gain.
Category ★★★★½
REVIEW: Sleeping Beauty
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe all know the classic story, whether it's Disney or the darker Brothers Grimm but Matthew Bourne's ballet brings the story to a modern audience whilst respecting the traditional crafts that influenced it.
REVIEW: Jack and the Beanstalk
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is the Lyric Hammersmith's offering to the panto gods, a revamped Jack and the Beanstalk, written by Jude Christian and Sonia Jalaly with direction from Nicholai La Barrie and choreography from Arielle Smith.
REVIEW: We Were Promised Honey
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this bare production by YESYESNONO, Sam Ward, the performer and writer of We Were Promised Honey addresses the audience directly and lets us decide the next hour.
REVIEW: Dinner with Groucho
Reading Time: 2 minutesT. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx were unlikely pen pals, corresponding for three years until they met in June of 1964. The reports say that Groucho reread King Lear so he could hold his own in conversation; Eliot was more interested in talking about Duck Soup. This meeting is the inspiration for Frank McGuinness’s newest play which revels in the imagined repartee of these two giants of their field.
REVIEW: The Mousetrap
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn the Mousetraps' 70th anniversary, we're invited to indulge in a classic period piece that made me feel as though I'd been transported back to the early 1950s when the play first debuted.
REVIEW: Alice
Reading Time: 3 minutesJasmin Vardimon is an award-winning choreographer and her newest show is a reimagining of the classic story of Alice in Wonderland.
REVIEW: Blood Brothers
Reading Time: 2 minutes A relatable and entertaining Scouse classic, bringing the class divisions of the late 20th century to light. Having studied Blood Brothers back in school, I was really looking forward to seeing it on the stage. Let me…
REVIEW: The Solid Life of Sugar Water
Reading Time: 3 minutesPlaying at Richmond’s Orange Tree Theatre until the 12th November, Sugar Water delves into the relationship between Alice (Katie Erich) and Phil (Adam Fenton), with no painful, cringeworthy or intimate detail left unshared.
REVIEW: A Billion Times I Love You
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis play supported by Homotopia, a Liverpool based LGBQIA arts festival tells a raw queer love story. A Billion Times I Love You is a beautiful depiction of a realistic relationship that takes into account an individual’s struggles and how they can strain a relationship.