Reading Time: 3 minutesFascinating, mad and impactful are just a few of the words one could use to describe A Giant On The Bridge. This concert-like experience mixed with spoken-word theatre blends the story of a father on his way home from prison to meet his family with that of a more traditional story of a giant and a prince.
Reading Time: 2 minutesan exclusive collection of savage short plays offering a uniquely skewed view of life and relationships in the modern world.
Neil LaBute’s America The Beautiful: Chapter 1 makes its UK debut at the King’s Head Theatre. Comprising of three thirty-minute plays written over the past decade for the LaBute New Theater Festival in the US, the collection offers a searing, albeit varied, look at the darker side of the human condition.
The first two chapters play at King’s Head Theatre from 9–21 March.
Reading Time: 2 minutesambslaughter is a dark comedy-drama set in a Catholic girls’ school in Merseyside in 2013. The play follows two sixth-formers, Chloe and Jade, and their increasingly blurred relationship with their English teacher, Mr Barrett.
Reading Time: 2 minutesREVIEW: Operation Mincemeat
After Olivier and Tony success, Operation Mincemeat begins its world tour back where it all began at The Lowry.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten and performed by Haley McGee, this never-the-same-twice show is a gripping story about how our relationship with mortality shapes the way we live. Charting the seminal moments, rites of passage and turning points in an adult life – your life – from the day you turn 25 through to your death, Age is a Feeling celebrates the glorious and melancholy unknowability of human life.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA bold and original double-bill dance performance from Manchester’s award-winning Company Chameleon, Obscura explores both the light and darkness that can be found in the hidden corners of self and society.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDeadcrush is an unconventional romantic comedy by James Robertson (they/them). It follows a sweet, bubbly woman named Bron, who has fallen in love with David, a dead man.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPart of FreshFest (The Old Red Lion Theatre’s 4th-year-running festival that celebrates new writing) Ché Tligui’s Concrete had only been previously exhibited at twenty minute scratch nights.
Reading Time: 3 minutesLearning How to Drive tells the story of three people facing the reality of what it means to truly know someone. We sat down with award winning writer, Brendan Murray, to discuss their upcoming production.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBased on real events, the critically acclaimed Bag of Beard Theatre bring you the unheard and undead tale of ‘The Highgate Vampire’ at the Omnibus Theatre.