REVIEW: By Heart
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘By Heart’, devised and delivered by Tiago Rodrigues, is a piece of experimental theatre that invites 10 audience members to partake in a group challenge: to memorise Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30.
Category Drama
REVIEW: Marina Abramović: Balkan Erotic Epic
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou could assume that this piece of theatre is simply about sex. The title and the sheer amount of nudity would suggest so, but more than that it is an exploration of myth and culture.
FEATURE: Final Weeks to Catch Born With Teeth
Reading Time: 2 minutesAudiences have less than a month left to witness Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa and Killing Eve’s Edward Bluemel in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s acclaimed West End premiere of Born With Teeth. The production, which imagines an electric meeting of minds between Christopher Marlowe and William…
REVIEW: War Horse
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter what author Michael Morpurgo aptly termed a “pandemic pause,” War Horse has returned to the UK stage with renewed urgency and emotional relevance.
REVIEW: The Party Girls
Reading Time: 2 minutesWalking into the Oxford Playhouse for The Party Girls, I had no prior knowledge of the Mitford sisters, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. What I found was a piece of theatre that was visually slick, tightly performed, and thematically challenging in all the right ways.
REVIEW: Endgame
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn evening of amateur dramatics from EUTC at Bedlam Theatre, Endgame by Samuel Beckett, felt like an interesting choice of production.
REVIEW: Improbable Sessions
Reading Time: 2 minutesImprobable Sessions: AI and Consciousness at the Oxford Playhouse was an evening of ingenuity, unpredictability, and surprising resonance.
REVIEW: Entertaining Mr Sloane
Reading Time: 2 minutesNadia Fall’s opening show as new artistic director of the Young Vic is a stunning revival of the 1964 British classic Entertaining Mr Sloane.
REVIEW: Yen
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn intense and immersive drama, following the lives of two teenage brothers surviving a childhood of instability and neglect. ‘Yen’ is an immersive dive into the lives of two brothers, aged 13 and 16, who are living…
REVIEW: The Land of the Living
Reading Time: 2 minutesa wonderful showcase of talent, both known and emerging