HIGHLIGHT: 7 unmissable performances at Inside Out Dorset 2023
Reading Time: 4 minutesActivate Performing Arts’ biennial outdoor arts festival, Inside Out Dorset, returns to entertain and celebrate Dorset.
Category Drama
REVIEW: Candy
Reading Time: 3 minutesDo you believe in love at first sight? This question is the headliner of Candy (written by Tim Fraser), which began life as a fifteen minute short at Bunker Theatre in 2018, and over the last five years has been added to and adapted into the full sixty minute one-man show that it is now.
REVIEW: Dumbledore is So Gay
Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing Jack, a reluctant Hufflepuff, as he navigates bullies, coming out, love and. keeping more secrets than the Chamber itself, this 75 minute play is an absolute delight. Written by Robert Holtom, and boasting the VAULT Festival Origins Award as well as an OffWestEnd.com short run commendation to its name, it doesn't disappoint.
REVIEW: Ride
Reading Time: 3 minutesRide is a new British musical performed first in March 2020 (before the world closed down) and currently showing at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant.
REVIEW: Eating Myself
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf there was ever an excuse for a road trip, it’s catching this warm, exquisite play that tingles and fizzes with flavour.
REVIEW: Disruption
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Disruption’ seems to be the hot-button word when depicting tech geniuses battling the establishment...
REVIEW: Cuckoo
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe heart and humour of Michael Wynne’s dark comedy about a multi-generational Scouse family tearing at the seams is undeniable, which makes it all the most frustrating when its ending leaves the family’s unresolved issues scattered across the stage.
REVIEW: Hope Has a Happy Meal
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe play follows the return of Hope after a nearly 30-year absence, as she navigates a corporation-run police state while attempting to reconnect with her family.
REVIEW: Taking It Back
Reading Time: 2 minutesTaking It Back, writen by Dijah-Zahra, was a very relevant play about the appropriation of African culture by European countries and tackles the artefacts that, despite numerous appeals and negotiations, remain on British soil.
REVIEW: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt is always impressive and inspiring to see a fully fledged production of a new musical - particularly with a beating British heart. In the stunning new Southwark Playhouse Elephant space, the show sits with ease - as if it were written for the venue.