REVIEW: The Olive Boy
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn The Olive Boy, writer and performer Ollie Maddigan plays his 15-year-old self, grappling with his mother’s death, adjusting to a new school, and living with a father he barely knows.
Category Drama
REVIEW: Until Spring Comes
Reading Time: 2 minutesUntil Spring Comes, written by Chen Tao Shen and directed by Shuyi Alice Wang, tells the story of an actor in rehearsal for a production of the myth of Phaethon after going through a surgery that leaves her with a colostomy bag.
REVIEW: One Jab Cures All
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen Max (Rob Pomfret) stumbles upon a universal cure, he firmly believes it should be freely accessible to everyone, for the good of humanity
REVIEW: To Kill a Mockingbird
Reading Time: 2 minutesAaron Sorkin’s riveting, award-winning stage adaptation of the seminal American novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, about racial injustice and childhood innocence became a Broadway and West End sensation has arrived at The Lowry, Manchester.
REVIEW: Austentatious
Reading Time: 2 minutesAustentatious, the much-loved British institution of improvised comedy and theatrical silliness, is now in its 14th year and marking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth.
REVIEW: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Reading Time: 2 minutesNominated for the Pulitzer Prize back in 2010, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo is particularly famous for the NYC production featuring Robin Williams in his broadway debut. Written by Rajiv Joseph and set in 2003 war-torn Iraq, this play delves into the cruelty of humanity and the futility of war.
REVIEW: Boogie on the Bones
Reading Time: 2 minutesSet in the drab sinkhole of Soviet Moscow, Boogie on the Bones explores a little-known Russian subculture from the 1950s: the Stilyagi, or “style-hunters.”
REVIEW: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnother collaboration between the touring theatre company Headlong and Shakespeare’s Globe, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is seemingly the perfect vibrant show to lure cold Londoners out of their winter hibernation.
REVIEW: How Does Santa Goes Down The Chimney?
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow Does Santa Go Down the Chimney? is the perfect winter treat (with a little added spice!) for all children, aged 108 or 5. Fusing sketch, puppetry, and clowning, the piece tells a simple, lighthearted story, a story we all know about, the story of Santa coming into our houses to deliver Christmas gifts – but with many many twists.
REVIEW: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
Reading Time: 2 minutesA global best-seller for over six decades, the 1963 Cold War spy novel The Spy Who Came In From The Cold has finally made it to the West End. Written by ex-spy John le Carré, this novel has been adapted for stage by David Eldridge and follows a sold out premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre.