REVIEW: Obscura
Reading Time: 2 minutesA bold and original double-bill dance performance from Manchester’s award-winning Company Chameleon, Obscura explores both the light and darkness that can be found in the hidden corners of self and society.
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REVIEW: ASMF & Steven Isserlis
Reading Time: 2 minutesReturning to the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields for their first collaboration since 2016, the ASMF reunited with Steven Isserlis in an evening shaped by the ethos of chamber music at scale.
REVIEW: Matilda Lloyd & Goldmund Quartet: ‘Salon Re-imagined’
Reading Time: 3 minutes“accomplished, elegant musical journey from Bach to Gershwin” A trumpet and string quartet is an unusual formation for a concert, but is the chosen vehicle for this concert inspired by the European salon concerts of the 18th and…
REVIEW: Guidline at New Diorama
Reading Time: 2 minutesDark descent into the internet age. Although the advent of social media is such a recent phenomena in our history, we can’t help but see that there is something primordial about the way it twists our human…
REVIEW: Go Feral Like the Big Dogs
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn excoriating satire of graduate ambition and corporate greed Recent graduates Alex (Josh Gordon) and Rachel (Maddie Frutig) are fully immersed in the London rat-race, negotiating insurance deals from their high-rise offices. Alongside the early-morning tube journeys…
REVIEW: Burnout: A Verbatim Play
Reading Time: 2 minutesA highly emotive and educational piece of theatre vital for the modern world. From the premise alone, Burnout: A Verbatim Play promised to be fascinating. Composed of dialogue entirely from twenty-seven interviews conducted by writer Ellen Bradbury,…
REVIEW: Manipulate Animated Horror Shorts
Reading Time: 3 minutes“A Strange and Powerful Selection of Well-Curated Shorts” The Manipulate festival’s horror shorts screening was initially intended as a retrospective. As the host of the event explains, upon seeing the quality and diversity of the current animated…
REVIEW: Monstering the Rocketman
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn exceptional retelling of the cautionary tale of journalistic hubris The story of Elton John’s defamation case against The Sun newspaper is well established among journalists, both aspiring and established. The infamous “sordid rent-boy orgy” stories published…
REVIEW: Daniel Moore’s Definitive Guide to Failure-Free Living
Reading Time: 2 minutesA funny, uncomfortable, intense, sweaty night of brilliant theatre Matthew Edgar’s curation of Daniel Moore’s Definitive Guide to Failure-Free Living iswithout a doubt, one to look out for. A co-production with Drayton Arms theatre, Edgarsituates the audience…
REVIEW: Edgar in the Red Room
Reading Time: 3 minutesA haunting, playful fever dream that blurs theatre, music and shadow into a lovinglymacabre tribute to Edgar Allan Poe. There’s something deliciously appropriate about encountering Edgar in the Red Room late in the evening, when the edges…