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.
Category History
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.
REVIEW: The Valentine Letters
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Valentine Letters brings back to life the real correspondence between John Valentine, a military made prisoner of war during World War II, and his wife Ursula, left in the UK with their newborn child Frances.
REVIEW: Being Mr Wickham
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe award-winning Original Theatre Company bring this production to Jermyn Street Theatre following a successful run in New York. Written and performed by Adrian Lukis, this one-man play explores what happened to one of Austen’s most charming villains in later life.