REVIEW: The Choir of Man
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Choir of Man at the Lowry Theatre Salford gave audiences a brilliant night out full of laughter, good music and a feeling that the night would never end.
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REVIEW: Doon the Watter
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Doon the Watter’ is a cheerful play about two sisters on their holidays to a Scottish island, telling each other stories and singing together.
REVIEW: Jersey Boys
Reading Time: 3 minutesJersey Boys marks its 20th anniversary as the new tour arrives at the Edinburgh Playhouse to a packed-out audience. 20 years later, it’s very clear why this show remains so popular.
REVIEW: Comment is Free
Reading Time: 2 minutesJames Fritz’s play, cOmment is Free, began as a staged reading in 2015 and became an award-winning BBC Radio 4 drama in 2016, and now returns in ETAL’s six-performer adaptation.
REVIEW: Woodhill
Reading Time: 2 minutes A powerful indictment of prison deaths from the families’ perspective Three men died at HMP Woodhill between 2013 and 2018. Their families’ search for answers drives LUNG’s verbatim dance-theatre piece, back after the chief inspector of prisons…
REVIEW: The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt, France 1940
Reading Time: 3 minutes“A courageous attempt to Arendt through Brechtian techniques” In May 1940, three German Jewish women are arrested at Camp Gurs in France: Hannah Arendt the political thinker, Charlotte Salomon the artist, and Eva Daube the communist. Drawing…
REVIEW: The Love That I’ve Lost
Reading Time: 3 minutesGalentine’s Day is usually sold as a celebration of brunch and unbridled female friendship, but in Morgan Clarice’s The Love That I’ve Lost it is closer to a coping mechanism. Michelle, newly separated,decides to host one in the hope of distracting herself and her family from the men they have lost.
REVIEW: Down to Chance
Reading Time: 3 minutesA surprisingly comedic whirlwind recap of a community coming together in the aftermath of disaster. Ambitious but under-appreciated journalist Genie Chance felt wasted on fluff pieces at the KENI radio station in Anchorage, Alaska, when an unprecedented…
REVIEW: From the Heart
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn intimate, heartfelt journey through the life and lyrics of a musical legend Don Black’s From the Heart was an intimate and heartfelt production, reminiscent of New YorkCity’s cabaret scene. What made the show particularly special was…
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Jessica Kinsey and Benjamin Askew
Reading Time: 3 minutesLADY M is a one-woman journey into the mind of Shakespeare’s “fiend-like queen”.