Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a double-bill, the two short, twentieth century operas Der Wald and Lucrezia are currently being shown at Guildhall School of Music and Drama to showcase the work of their student musicians and technicians.
Reading Time: 3 minutesComfortingly faithful to the message of the novel, with a little extra bite. I flatter myself that I am fairly familiar with Louisa May Alcott’s wonderful Little Women – I’ve read it many times, and have seen every film adaptation…
Reading Time: 2 minutesUrooj Ashfaq’s How to Be a Baddie was funny, conversational and cosy. Both the set up, Urooj’s confidence and storytelling invited us into the world of being a female Indian comedian, as she strives to counter an unnamed reviewers suggestion that she wasn’t quite as edgy as she may be deemed in India.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“An entertaining and thought-provoking talk on how important it is to know what we don’t know.” Described as a “Statistical national treasure”, Sir David Spiegelhalters talk at the Oxford playhouse involved a number of themes from his…
Reading Time: 2 minutes“This visually striking play explores the bleak reality of pyromania, and the complex burden of familial duty in a slow-burn setting” A comically unsettling atmosphere was instantly created in the pre show- retro songs referencing the use…
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Imagine Saw, if it came with party games and a Billy Ray Cyrus soundtrack.” “Are we in Hell?” asks Mitchell. It’s not an unreasonable question — trapped in a mysterious room, he is blindfolded, bound to stranger…
Reading Time: 2 minutes“You’ll be in the room where it happens for this exhilarating, razor-sharp masterpiece that blends history, hip-hop, and heart into pure theatrical magic.” The Theatre Royal in Glasgow was absolutely buzzing as Hamilton hit the stage this …
Reading Time: 2 minutesonglisted for the Royal Exchange Theatre’s Bruntwood Prize in 2022, Frankie Lipman's debut play Wightwater has landed in the vaults of 53Two Theatre in Manchester.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom its premise, ‘So Young’ (written by Douglas Maxwell) promised to be an emotional show. Revolving around a husband, Davie (Andy Clark), and wife, Liane (Lucianne McEvoy) visiting Milo (Robert Jack), who lost his wife Helen only a short while before.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith Elizabeth Huskisson being the first playwright to be commissioned by the police, I was interested to see the kind of work she might create for an institution which has historically—and recently—been criticised as one riddled with systemic misogyny, racism, transphobia, homophobia and ableism.