REVIEW: Barnum: The Circus Musical
Reading Time: 3 minutesPreviously brought to the screen by the hit film The Greatest Showman, P.T. Barnum, who produced what was known as the ‘world’s greatest show’, is having his story hit the stage once again.
Category ★★★★☆
REVIEW: The Hungry Ghost
Reading Time: 2 minutesinsatiable desire The Hungry Ghost can be read as a story of supernatural possession, of disordered eating, or of an insatiable hunger for love. In Mei Leng Yew’s play, these readings continually overlap where the desire for food…
REVIEW: Maya Ricote: Ay Am!
Reading Time: 2 minutesA frozen clown walks out of a fridge. She is visibly feminine, with popped-up boobs and bum, while her bright red knitted dress does little to understate them. She has just realised that she is over 90 years old, yet her frozen body remains perfectly in shape. The story follows her, an actress, as she is called to an audition for a role that could hopefully prevent her from returning to the fridge and being frozen forever—until her journey goes completely out of her control.
REVIEW: Do Not Pass Go
Reading Time: 2 minutesDo Not Pass Go is an experimental new production from award winning production company Jordan & Skinner.
REVIEW: Bull
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a performance delivered entirely in BSL with creative captions, Deafinitely Theatre create a viscerally visual power-play of cruelty, in this expressive and tense version of Mike
Bartlett’s Bull.
REVIEW: Burning Down the House
Reading Time: 2 minutesBurning Down the House is an accessible, engaging and ultimately moving piece of theatre
REVIEW: How Soon Is Now?
Reading Time: 3 minutesBox of Tricks brings its latest production How Soon Is Now? to The Lowry as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations.
REVIEW: Preview Screening: Future Acts
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe National Theatre of Scotland and BBC Scotland have collaborated on the production of 6 new short films that explore Scotland’s future.
REVIEW: Tristan & Yseult
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou wouldn’t expect a grand, sweeping tale of medieval romance to begin with a welcome into “The Club of the Unloved”, a cagoule-clad, binocular-toting crew of lonely hearts who spy on both performers and audience through their binoculars. But in Kneehigh and Emma Rice’s Tristan and Yseult, the silly intertwines with the tragic in a rambunctious cabaret.
REVIEW: Flamenc Oh!!
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis production manages to successfully blend the technical brilliance of flamenco with the physical comedy of pantomime and the Spanish passion of telenovela drama. Flamenc Oh!! tells the tale of a family whose story feels as much in keeping thematically with any of Federico García Lorca’s masterpieces.