Reading Time: 2 minutesBlackout. Then lights come up and we are immediately transfixed in what looks like the switching on of a well-oiled machine - this is Family Honour. The actors on stage move in complete synch and without a trace of hesitation.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHappy Meal, fresh from the Fringe, is treating the Oxford Playhouse and Coventry to a witty, touching queer rom-com.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHofesh Shechter brings his award winning company Shechter II on a tour of Europe with his latest show - Contemporary Dance 2.0.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSilence is a play adapted from Kavita Puri’s Partition Voices: Untold British Stories by Sonali Bhattacharyya, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Ishy Din and Alexandra Wood.
Reading Time: 3 minutesKicking off its autumn season with the world premiere of Jacob Roberts-Mensah’s new play, Drum, Omnibus Theatre sets the bar really high indeed. Although surprisingly short in duration (merely 70’ long), this play is the definition of quality over quantity.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCabaret Havana is set across two times and places. We begin in a dystopian future, where in the year 2033, all arts students are forced to give up their dreams and train for jobs which are more ‘productive’.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 18-25 Bush Young Company promises an explosive debut, and certainly delivers. It had been a while since I’d been to such an electric piece of theatre, to a show provoking riotous laughter, pensive nods and even cheers of recognition.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis performance of Puccini’s La Boheme by the English National Opera is a stunning rendition of an operatic classic.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMelissa Stephens opens with a 'borrowed' joke about being Southern Trash which immediately sets the tone of this stand up show.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is the heart of The Trials, Dawn King’s urgent new play, running at the Donmar Warehouse after its 2021 premiere in Dusseldorf. The best way I can describe it is if Gen-Z did 12 Angry Men. In a future where climate change has rendered much of the world uninhabitable, children adjudicate on their parents and debate whether the self-interest of older generations led them to doom future ones.