Reading Time: 4 minutesTom, Dick and Harry showcases excellent acting, direction and technical skill, and there are many elements of great spirit and warmth - it is only a pity these are not put to use in more forward-thinking storytelling.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSister Act is an uplifting, colourful treat that tickles your funny bones and hits all the right notes. Whether you are a fan of the movie, or have maybe seen a previous version of the musical, it makes for a divine night out that’s well worth a ticket.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdapted for the Arcola Theatre’s Grimeborn Festival, Marcio De Silva’s production of Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea is a dark and sensual delight.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s hard to describe Yeast Nation in a few words. It’s set in 3,000,458,000 B.C., when the world’s first salt-eating yeasts are led by an ageing king unwilling to face their decline in saline. It’s a story tackling love and hope and inevitable evolution.
Reading Time: 3 minutesChasing Hares expertly captures the ongoing struggle against neo-liberalism and capitalism which stems across time and space.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFreud’s Last Session promises debates on love, sex, and religion, and it certainly delivers - with more besides. Mark St. Germain’s writing, complemented by Peter Darney’s direction, weaves smartly through each new subject so that you only realise you’re somewhere new once you’re already there.
Reading Time: 4 minutes‘Hungry’, is advertised as being a “blisteringly funny play about what we eat and who we love, exploring class, queerness, cultural appropriation and the cost of gentrification”, it is fair to say the topics of food and class were investigated at length.
Reading Time: 3 minutesImmersive Everywhere’s new show Peaky Blinders: The Rise, directed by Tom Maller and written by Katie Lyons, is housed in a converted horse hospital in the heart of Camden Stables Market.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMoral Panic from Blue Dog Theatre performed by Jack Cooper and written/directed by Stewart Warwick is the perfect piece to be showcased at the beautiful Riverside Studios.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith improv becoming more and more popular as an art form, creatives are pushed to find ever engaging ways to evolve the trope. This time it's a cast of quick thinking Shakespeare buffs who have taken on the challenge.