REVIEW: Varna International Ballet – Swan Lake
Reading Time: 2 minutesSwan Lake is one of the most iconic pieces of ballet for a reason; the score is absolutely faultless.
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REVIEW: My Life with Kenneth Williams
Reading Time: 3 minutesKenneth Williams, the famed raconteur with a notoriously prickly personality, would have celebrated his centenary this year.
REVIEW: Desert Thirsts and Jerusalem Winds
Reading Time: 2 minutesDesert Thirsts and Jerusalem Winds is based on the real-life story of Muhammad Asad, born Leopold Weiss, an Austrian Jewish journalist who travelled across the Arab world in the 1920s, who interrogated the early Zionist movement, converted to Islam, and later became one of the most influential Muslim thinkers of the twentieth century.
REVIEW: Woolwich Works Burns Night Ceilidh
Reading Time: 2 minutesBurns Night, a celebration of the varied, romantic and often irreverent work of Scottish poet Robert Burns, always seems to arrive at exactly the right moment.
REVIEW: Jessica Barton: Dirty Work
Reading Time: 2 minutesDirty Work arrives as a highly anticipated exploration of "invisible" labour following a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe.
REVIEW: We Will Rock You
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe Will Rock You is Ben Elton’s love letter to that legacy and Hamilton Theatre Arts honour everything this show represents, embodying the true spirit of rock.
REVIEW: Ghost Grandma
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnd therein lies the main issue with Ghost Grandma. Marketed as a comedy, it struggles to maintain any consistent comedic impact. Despite the cast’s evident commitment, the script and direction leave many jokes falling flat, and the actors’ often overstated delivery of punchlines makes the tonal shifts that come later in the play all the more jarring and uneven.
REVIEW: Pierre Novellie
Reading Time: 2 minutesPrecise observations, as funny as they are well constructed Pierre Novellie’s business suit and florid tie are incongruent with Soho Downstairs’ crammed-in seating and smell of stale beer. But this exceptionally well-pitched show is unimpeded, and delivers…
REVIEW: Nowhere
Reading Time: 2 minutesStripped back yet emotionally expansive, Nowhere is an impassioned exploration of exile, resistance, and shared humanity. Khalid Abdalla’s Nowhere, currently playing at the Oxford Playhouse, is an intense and deeply affecting piece of theatre that uses space, light, and the…
REVIEW: The Wedding, Gecko
Reading Time: 3 minutesA visually stunning, ensemble-driven physical-theatre piece where “brides” become a darkly funny machine for belonging. Physical theatre company Gecko mark their 25th anniversary with a restaging of their 2017 production The Wedding, debuting at Sadler’s Wells East…