REVIEW: Radio Live: A New Generation
Reading Time: 2 minutesUnlike anything I’ve seen before, Radio Live—though not a conventional “theatre” show—is the most profound and human piece of art I’ve experienced this year.
Category New writing
REVIEW: Small Hotel
Reading Time: 2 minutesRalph Fiennes closes his Theatre Royal Bath season not with a grand flourish, but with a quietly devastating one-act meditation on love, regret, and legacy. Small Hotel unfolds like a fever dream, asking what remains when the spotlight fades. After the success of Grace Pervades and As You Like It, the expectations were high and they are met with a production that is emotionally raw and stylistically dramatic.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Lara Parmiani
Reading Time: 4 minutesInspired by Aidan Hehir’s illustrated novel, drawing on his experience of travelling from Sarajevo to Srebrenica, the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide is marked by a new theatre production that asks ‘can remembering be an act of resistance’ We sat down with Director Lara Parmiani to discuss their upcoming production.
REVIEW: Get Down Tonight
Reading Time: 2 minutesSunshine, sweat and sound. When Harry Wayne Casey, a record shop staff in Hialeah with an obsession for rhythm, he didn't know Miami would become the centre of disco and dance music because of him.
REVIEW: (the) Woman
Reading Time: 2 minutesM is many things. A writer, a mother, a woman. She’s tired and angry and uncertain. In a world that tells women that they can do anything, that they can well and truly ‘have it all,’ M is bursting with an overwhelming question: HOW?
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Alex Constantinidi and Mathilda Parker-Craig
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Alex Constantinidi, playwright behind Doomscroll Till I Die, and producer, Mathilda Parker-Craig, running at the Pleasance Theatre from 23-27th September.
REVIEW: The Land of the Living
Reading Time: 2 minutesa wonderful showcase of talent, both known and emerging
REVIEW: Shotgunned
Reading Time: 2 minutesMatt Anderson's Shotgunned is a relatable and intimate piece of theatre about how the people we lose can shape who we become. Telling the story of Dylan and Roz – a couple who unexpectedly fall out of love
REVIEW: Am I losing my mind or just my figure?
Reading Time: 2 minutes'Am I Losing My Mind Or Just My Figure' premiered at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 24 years ago winning a London transfer to the Pleasance in London.
New elements have been introduced since its first outing in 2001, with actor and theatre maker Genevieve Labuschagne collaborating with the show’s originator Sam Holland-Bunyan.
REVIEW: Can’t Complain
Reading Time: 3 minutesCan't Complain is a brand new electropop audiodrama musical that captures a yearlong exploration of grief and loss, love and light, isolation and community seen through the eyes of a makeshift family unit living in the leafy but lifeless British countryside.