Reading Time: 2 minutesA count's daughter seduces her father's footman, resulting in the ruin of three lives: her own, the footman’s, and his wife's. Written in 1888, Strindberg's play Miss Julie explores the power dynamics between classes and genders.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the bustling auditorium of Jacksons Lane theatre in Highgate, amidst the gentle hubbub of the waiting audience, Tom Gaskin stepped casually to the front of the seats and began to very slowly ‘post’ a letter through a mail slot held up by a willing audience member.
Reading Time: 2 minutesReleased in the aftermath of 2016’s referendum, Ali Smith’s Autumn was celebrated as the first ‘post-Brexit’ novel, having its finger firmly on the pulse of modern British society.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“The National Youth Theatre (NYT) mesmerizes in The War of TheWorlds.” Relevant, off-kilter, funny and incredibly effective. IsleyLynn’s fresh take on The War of The Worldsis a triumph. Drawing from H.G. Wells’ novel and Orson Wellesradio play,…
Reading Time: 3 minutes“A fever dream of innovative experimental theatre that suffers from its monotony” Signal to Noise is the latest show from Sheffield-based ensemble ‘Forced Entertainment’, a company with a long history of devising experimental theatre to provoke audiences…
Reading Time: 2 minutes“The play embraced culture and bravery and standing up for what you believe in” “Run Rebel” is a stage adaptation of the novel by Manjeet Mann, an actor, author and playwright. The play was performed by Pilot Theatre…
Reading Time: 2 minutesHackney Town Hall takes centre stage in Adam Taub’s adaptation which creates the perfect administrative feel. This is a true selling point of the show and is something Pure Expression is known for as a theatre company considering all its productions are site-specific retellings of classic stories.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs part of Theatre Peckham's "Young Gifted and Black" season, a series of work celebrating young Black talent, Larry Coke’s thought-provoking production explores the life of Henrietta Lacks in the days leading up to her diagnosis of cervical cancer. The play is a musical reimagining of her life, set primarily in the time of racial segregation in America and aims to humanise Henrietta by exploring her relationships and the connections that shaped her.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Nikoletta Soumelidis, writer, and Helen Cunningham, director, of Spent which comes to London's Voila Festival on the 9, 10, 16, 17th November.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLand of the Free is the latest show performed by award winning theatrical ensemble Simple 8. Written by Sebastian Armesto and Dudley Hinton, and also directed by Armesto, Land of the Free tells the story of John Wilks Booth - the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln shortly after the end of the American Civil war in 1865.