REVIEW: This Is Not About Me
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis Is Not About Me acutely explores the shifting meanings of intimacy through Grace and Eli, a pair entangled in an intricate, long-standing relationship.
Category Experimental
REVIEW: Imitating the Dog: War of the Worlds
Reading Time: 2 minutesUsing miniature environments, model worlds, camera tricks, and projection, imitating the dog mix the live and the recorded, the animate and the inanimate to create a thrilling, audacious and timely retelling of H.G. Wells’ classic novel.
Following their acclaimed adaptations of literary classics Heart of Darkness (2018), Dracula (2021), Macbeth (2023) and Frankenstein (2024), “multimedia daredevils” imitating the dog push their inventive storytelling to new heights
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Sam Butler
Reading Time: 3 minutesExperimental cross-arts company Fevered Sleep will make its Barbican debut with public art intervention This Grief Thing.
REVIEW: Prayers For A Hungry Ghost at the Pit at Barbican
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Lavishing on desire” Do we desire food out of hungry? Do we desire out of lack? If I crave something, or someone, does it mean something missing in me? E gui (饿鬼 hungry ghost), a term used in pan-Chinese…
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.
REVIEW: The Bride and The Goodnight Cinderella at Southbank Centre
Reading Time: 3 minutesto (un)mark Botticelli’s four-panel cycle of Nastagio degli Onesti, a tale lifted from Boccaccio’s Decameron, depicts a brutal and chilling parable of male violence and coercion against women. Nastagio traps a woman to marry him by staging an eternal…
REVIEW: A Journey to the West
Reading Time: 3 minutesTraditional Sichuan Opera face-changing becomes a powerful metaphor for fractured identity. Digital projections and electronic soundscapes collide with ancient motifs, visualizing the tension between cultural heritage and global ambition.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Piotr Mirowski
Reading Time: 5 minutesWe caught up with director Piotr Mirowski to hear all about Improbiotics’ RoboTales at Gilded Balloon Patter House, an improvised tech theatre show fusing human creativity and artificial intelligence.
REVIEW: Pascol
Reading Time: 2 minutesPascol is a unique vocal performance where five singers transform audience members’ personal stories and emotions into live improvised vocal compositions. Each evening becomes a one-of-a-kind sonic mirror — never repeated, always shaped by the moment.
REVIEW: 4.48 Psychosis
Reading Time: 2 minutesA pioneer of ‘in-yer-face theatre’, Sarah Kane was known for awaking at 4.48am in a depressed state to write her plays, typically exploring themes of pain and torture, love and desire. Her final play, 4.48 Psychosis has been described as ‘a 75-minute suicide note’, as it debuted at Royal Court Theatre over a year after she hung herself.