REVIEW: Trip the Light Fantastic
Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten by Miriam Battye (Scenes with Girls, Strategic Love Play, Succession), Trip the Light Fantastic makes its London debut at OSO Theatre.
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REVIEW: Imitating the Dog: War of the Worlds
Reading Time: 2 minutesUsing miniature environments, model worlds, camera tricks, and projection, imitating the dog mix the live and the recorded, the animate and the inanimate to create a thrilling, audacious and timely retelling of H.G. Wells’ classic novel.
Following their acclaimed adaptations of literary classics Heart of Darkness (2018), Dracula (2021), Macbeth (2023) and Frankenstein (2024), “multimedia daredevils” imitating the dog push their inventive storytelling to new heights
REVIEW: Gruesome Playground Injuries at Golden Goose
Reading Time: 2 minutesLove, scars, and thirty years of almost. Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries traces the relationship between Doug and Kayleen across three decades, presenting their story through a series of encounters that unfold out of chronological order. Each…
REVIEW: Dance Plague of 1518 at New Wimbledon Theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutes90 minutes of wonderful, historically (in)accurate chaos A rousing applause welcomed an energetic foursome of Sam Trotman, Finn Tickel, Caoimhe de Brún and Harrison Macdonald-Taylor to the Studio stage at New Wimbledon Theatre on Friday night for…
REVIEW: The Red Prince at Lion and Unicorn
Reading Time: 2 minutesDark political satire: an impressive performance and piercing comedy The scene is set: a tired, messy, red rosette studded office, with a bottle of white wine sitting on the table, shortly to be opened. I hope it…
REVIEW: Primal Bog at Soho Theatre
Reading Time: 3 minutesGarland sets fourth an unwavering theatrical statement in Primal Bog, a show which slices normativity, disembowels commodified self-care and celebrates our inner filth. Writer/performer Rosa Garland walks naked onto a white canvas covered stage. The front row of…
REVIEW: Waiting for Godot
Reading Time: 2 minutesSet on a stark stage in the newly renovated Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, Dominic Hill’s Waiting for Godot did not disappoint.
REVIEW: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
Reading Time: 2 minutesJulia Lupașcu presents a work that confronts mortality with striking choreographic and theatrical intelligence. As part of Resolution 26 at The Place, Romanian choreographer Julia Lupașcu presented a work that confronted mortality with striking theatrical intelligence. Drawing…
REVIEW: Gannet
Reading Time: 2 minutes Described as a black comedy “for anyone who has ever struggled to fit in”, Gannet is a part clowning, part monologue piece in which performer/writer Daisy Day, alongside co-writer/director Peggy Pollard, weave a meandering and hilariously convoluted tale of a young bird struggling to make his way in the world.
REVIEW: Here & Now – The Steps Musical
Reading Time: 3 minutesGet your party on with HERE AND NOW, the hilarious, brand-new musical based on the songs of multi-million-selling pop phenomenon, Steps.