REVIEW: Princess Essex
Reading Time: 2 minutesA heart-warming tale of courage and tenacity, Princess Essex follows the inspiring true story of the first woman of colour to enter a beauty pageant in the UK.
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In Conversation With Floella Benjamin
Reading Time: 4 minutesOxford Playhouse hosts the brand-new stage adaptation of Baroness Floella Benjamin’s award-winning book, Coming to England, which bursts into life on the Main Stage from Wednesday.
REVIEW: Fortune Bistro
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Fortune Bistro” presents an interesting and meaningful concept that attempts to explore the relationship between Eastern traditional cultures and modern technology.
REVIEW: Utoya
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Utoya, playwright Edoardo Erba depicts the experiences of those on the outskirts of the attack who, despite their physical distance, were distinctly impacted by the attack, as all in Norway were.
REVIEW: Cianalas
Reading Time: 3 minutesCianalas, an original play by writer and actor Niamh O’Donnell, brings audiences on a gripping ride as a village in the Scottish Highlands faces an existential threat: the Highland Clearances.
REVIEW: Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Reading Time: 2 minutesGeorge Bernard Shaw’s 1893 play Mrs. Warren’s Profession was so incendiary that the cast of the first public performance in 1905 was arrested midway through the show.
REVIEW: Jewels
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn Jewels, writer and performer Tanwen Stokes brings a fresh, fun, and lovingly irreverent story of mediaeval womanhood onto the stage.
REVIEW: George
Reading Time: 4 minutesGeorge, a new play written by Léa des Garets and directed by Rute Costa, is a brilliantly imaginative dive into the world of George Sand.
REVIEW: The Dao of Unrepresentative British Chinese Experience
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten by Daniel York Loh as a semi-autobiography and directed by Alice Kornitzer, Kakilang's production of The Dao of Unrepresentative British Chinese Experience explores a Sino-British experience that feels remote yet suddenly recalled after the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighted in the production through the racist chant "Chinese Japanese dirty knees," which hadn't been heard for a long time.
REVIEW: Operation Mincemeat
Reading Time: 2 minutesBrought to life by Splitlip, this slick satire follows the true story of how the British MI5 tricked Hitler by using a corpse, some fake documents and lot of faith… a lot of it.