Reading Time: 2 minutesVignettes across our current end-of-days. How can we exist in the era of climate disaster? How can we make a future for ourselves in the present when the damage is already done? “Scenes from the Climate Era”…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter what author Michael Morpurgo aptly termed a “pandemic pause,” War Horse has returned to the UK stage with renewed urgency and emotional relevance.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA breathtaking history of some of ballet’s most radical choreographers The English National Ballet’s R:Evolution is a quadruple bill of some of ballet’s most innovative works. It takes us through a brief history of four of the art form’s…
Reading Time: 2 minutesBrilliant evening celebrating Cuban dancers, choreographers and culture Founded in 2015 by the celebrated dancer Carlos Acosta, Acosta Danza is acclaimed for its distinctive blend of contemporary and classical works infused with Cuba’s rich musical and cultural…
Reading Time: 3 minutesto (un)mark Botticelli’s four-panel cycle of Nastagio degli Onesti, a tale lifted from Boccaccio’s Decameron, depicts a brutal and chilling parable of male violence and coercion against women. Nastagio traps a woman to marry him by staging an eternal…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThere’s a sly misdirection in the title: you expect a didactical session, a how-to lesson. What Michael Keegan-Dolan offers instead is a memoir in motion, a life distilled into rhythm, anecdote and image. Over eighty minutes the show moves like story: intimate, rough-edged, and stitched together with unexpected tenderness.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere’s a very unique kind of intimacy in Philip Ridley’s one-person plays: the kind that pushes its blade right up to theatre’s jugular and cheekily threatens to bleed it dry if you don’t follow it through to the end.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFunny, thoughtful, and unexpectedly moving, Full English is a love letter to the quirks and power of English language. At Barons Court Theatre, Full English promised not bacon and eggs, but a feast of words served up…
Reading Time: 3 minutes“We are writing history” NTS magic at the Citz
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis absurdist piece of theatre profoundly found the in between, answering the unanswered questions between our two characters, Kitt and Noel.