REVIEW: Karate Kid the Musical
Reading Time: 3 minutesKarate Kid: The Musical is a highly successful stage adaptation that brings a familiar and much-loved story to life in a fresh and engaging way.
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REVIEW: Single White Female
Reading Time: 2 minutesA modernised reimagining of the 90s thriller
REVIEW: In Our Broken Hours
Reading Time: 2 minutesHe wasn’t a good person but he was my friend
REVIEW: The P Word
Reading Time: 2 minutesWaleed Akhtar’s The P Word is both an example of theatrical genius and of the power theatre holds in its storytelling.
REVIEW: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (with other selections) – I Fagiolini
Reading Time: 2 minutesHenry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas is a classic of early English opera - written in the 1680’s, this is one of the earliest operas composed in England.
REVIEW: Second Speaker
Reading Time: 2 minutesSecond Speaker, a new play by Nathan Chu, gradually opens out into an examination of the prison education system and the value of learning in environments designed for containment rather than growth.
REVIEW: Sizzling Hot Circus
Reading Time: 2 minutesSizzling Hot Circus is exactly what the title promises: bold, playful, unapologetically sensual entertainment delivered by performers operating at an astonishing level of technical skill.
REVIEW: Memory Keepers
Reading Time: 2 minutesMemory Keepers, the new work by guest artistic directors Kristina and Sadé Alleyne for the National Youth Dance Company, arrives at Sadler's Wells to remind you how much the body also keeps everything else including the grief, the joy, the smell of your mother's moisturiser and the feeling of being pulled back to something you'd half decided to forget.
REVIEW: A Northern Tr*nny Hootenanny
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo round off Bury Pride, The Met showcased Hunter King’s debut musical with a fabulous title: A Northern Tr*nny Hootenanny. Written, performed and directed by King, we are taken on a rootin’, tootin’, musical journey of transition from Bolton milkmaid to Manchester cowboy.
REVIEW: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Reading Time: 3 minutesSarah Tresilian’s vision in creating the Shakespeers theatre company and directing this first play was to make Shakespeare accessible to all, pulling it away from elitism and delivering it back to the public.