Reading Time: 2 minutesFor 12 weeks only Noises Off promises easy laughter with a bold and witty meta farce The director shouts to hold, and we understand that we’re watching the dress rehearsal of the play ‘Nothing On’, and become…
Reading Time: 3 minutesMÁM shows just how transfixing the communion between movement and music can be Choreographed by Michael Keegan-Dolan, and produced by the dance company Teaċ Daṁsa, MÁM returns to Sadler’s Wells this month, an other-worldly exploration of human…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA tour de force of female rage and vulnerability Chat Shit, Get Hit. The title itself grabs the attention of the audience: a threat, a rhyme, a direct statement. I was certainly enticed. We enter into a…
Reading Time: 2 minutesHauntings, a solo performance of Gerard Logan, takes its audience on a chilling journey through the eerie tales of E.F. Benson and M.R. James.
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou Heard Me unapologetically and rightly so demands to be heard In You Heard Me, a one-woman physical theatre piece, Luca Rutherford masterfully weaves an intensely personal narrative that delves into the harrowing true story of her…
Reading Time: 2 minutesMurder in The Dark is an electrifying production that combines talented acting, clever set design, and atmospheric lighting to deliver a spine-tingling experience that lingers long after the final curtain falls.
Reading Time: 3 minutesStrangers In Between is a 2-act play written by Tommy Murphy and directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher. It tells the story of a young man called Shane who has recently left his small town to move to Sydney where he tries to build a life for himself.
Reading Time: 2 minutes30 years ago, when Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing was first produced, it was described as an urban fairy tale which portrayed what it is to be young, gay and in love in the early 90s.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOperation Epsilon tells the story of a group of German scientists who were sequestered in an English manor house near the end of WW2 and spied on by the British to see how close they were to creating an atomic bomb. Directed by Andy Samberg and written by Alan Brody, this play shines a light on a little-known part of history, and uses real life transcripts of the conversations these scientists had, plus a whole lot of creative license, to make an interesting and thought-provoking show.
Reading Time: 3 minutesEntering the Ambassador’s Theatre on a sweltering Tuesday night, the excitement for this hotly-anticipated production of Noël Coward’s classic comedy was palpable. Private Lives is a 1930s comedy in three acts. Passion, romance, anger, and lust all intertwine in Coward’s ultimate battle of the sexes as recent divorcees, Amanda and Elyot, bump into one another inadvertently on a hotel balcony after booking two rooms, door-to-door, on their respective honeymoons with their new lovers, Victor and Sybil. Amanda and Elyot are forced to face their true feelings for each other. Realising they have made a mistake leaving each other, they attempt to escape their mismatched partners. They succeed… for a bit.