REVIEW: Avocado Presents: Improv
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn improvised one-act play by improv duo Hamza Mohsin and Jake Migicovsky, together forming Avocado Presents bring this show to The Curtain's Up pub.
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REVIEW: Zombiegate
Reading Time: 4 minutesZombiegate is a satirical and empathetic play which attempts to get behind the headlines and hashtags of internet trolls, scrutinizing mob mentality and myths around cancel culture.
REVIEW: From Here To Eternity
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s 1941, a couple of months before the Attack on Pearl Harbor, and G Company are stationed at the Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. It’s no surprise that James Jones’s original 1951 novel, From Here To Eternity, was heavily censored by his publisher - it’s a story about power, masculinity, gay men in the army, sanctioned bullying, and the effects of war.
REVIEW: The Mousetrap
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn the Mousetraps' 70th anniversary, we're invited to indulge in a classic period piece that made me feel as though I'd been transported back to the early 1950s when the play first debuted.
REVIEW: A Butcher of Distinction
Reading Time: 3 minutesDirected by Macadie Amoroso, the action of Rob Hayes’ A Butcher of Distinction unfolds in a dark and eerie pub basement.
REVIEW: The Importance of Being Earnest
Reading Time: 3 minutesPlaying at The Rose Theatre in Kingston until 12th November, don’t miss this deliciously witty, fast-paced new production of Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, which takes on a sizzling modern feel in the hands of director Denzel Westley-Sanderson.
REVIEW: Navy Blue
Reading Time: 2 minutesOona Doherty’s Navy Blue explores the insignificance of dance, life and the whole world. From the offset, Navy Blue might seem like a bit of a bleak experience if the point is to comprehend the pointlessness of sitting in a theatre watching a dance show that expresses itself as pointless and irrelevant.
REVIEW: Austentatious on Tour
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Regency comedy improvisation show, made famous at the Edinburgh Fringe is on tour! Every single show promises to deliver a brand new 'lost' Jane Austen play based only on audience suggestions.
REVIEW: By the Light of the Moon
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s 1928. Lila is all alone in a hospital for the criminally insane. Without any support, she is forced to face her secrets and the darkness of her past that led to her imprisonment “Packed with playful poetry and vivid trauma,” says the description, though this one-woman show from Shea Donovan perhaps struggles with the latter claim.
REVIEW: Alice
Reading Time: 3 minutesJasmin Vardimon is an award-winning choreographer and her newest show is a reimagining of the classic story of Alice in Wonderland.