REVIEW: How Soon Is Now?

Reading Time: 3 minutesBox of Tricks brings its latest production How Soon Is Now? to The Lowry as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations.

Reading Time: 3 minutesBox of Tricks brings its latest production How Soon Is Now? to The Lowry as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations.

Reading Time: 3 minutesMagnetic North’s We Will Hear the Angels focuses on the effects of alienation of an urban landscape on five isolated individuals.

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe National Theatre of Scotland and BBC Scotland have collaborated on the production of 6 new short films that explore Scotland’s future.

Reading Time: 3 minutesGutter Theatre’s Eurydice at Assembly Roxy is an ambitious retelling of Sarah Ruhl’s modern take on the Greek myth. For anyone unfamiliar, the story follows Eurydice, who dies on her wedding day and enters the underworld, where she meets her father and tries to remember who she was in life.

Reading Time: 2 minutesWinsomely delivered by a beautifully balanced cast, this Hay Fever finds fresh life in Coward’s comic rhythms Noël Coward’s family of attention-seeking creatives turns a few house guests into unwilling participants in its private drama, and Emily…

Reading Time: 3 minutesMagic has always held a particular appeal. Not knowing how it’s done is, for many, rather the point. So there’s no need to explain exactly what Ben Hart does in Hex, except to say that watching him very closely doesn’t help.

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe highly anticipated Portrait of Black Britain returned to Manchester on October 1st at Aviva Studios. Originally commissioned in 2021, the exhibition featured 116 photographs of Black British people and was displayed in Manchester Arndale before travelling south to Bluewater. The collection has now expanded to over 200 portraits of Black British people from all walks of life.

Reading Time: 3 minutesAssociate partner of the Oxford Playhouse, Headlong, offer a complex and brooding take on August Wilson’s 1985 classic play, Fences.

Reading Time: 3 minutesSam Holcroft’s 2023 dystopian censorship play A Mirror follows the inner workings of the Ministry of Culture, the propagandist arm of the reigning totalitarian regime.

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe evening opened with an introduction from mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina and pianist Jonathan Palmer Lakeland, who explained how the programme's theme had evolved.