REVIEW: NINA
Reading Time: 2 minutesNINA, on at Battersea Arts Centre through 24 October, accomplishes what so many modern plays cannot: repurposes a well-mined classic into something genuinely relevant to contemporary audiences.
Category Theatre
REVIEW: The Nature of Forgetting
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor Theatre Re’s tenth anniversary season, The Nature of Forgetting returns to London at the Hackney Empire before touring the UK, China, Korea and the US.
REVIEW: East is East
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Bafta-winning play-turned-film East Is East appears at the Citizens’ Theatre this season, thirty years after first appearing at Birmingham Rep in 1996.
REVIEW: Little Shop of Horrors
Reading Time: 2 minutesCelebrating its 40th anniversary, classic film ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ fills the intimate confines of Hope Mill Theatre with energy.
REVIEW: Barnum: The Circus Musical
Reading Time: 3 minutesPreviously brought to the screen by the hit film The Greatest Showman, P.T. Barnum, who produced what was known as the ‘world’s greatest show’, is having his story hit the stage once again.
REVIEW: The Silence of the Lambs
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn its first stage adaptation, written by Gina Gionfriddo and directed by Nikolai Foster, The Silence of the Lambs looks spectacular, but struggles to innovate.
REVIEW: Waitress
Reading Time: 2 minutesSara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson’s acclaimed and beloved musical ‘Waitress’ bakes up a storm in Glasgow under the direction of Diane Paulus.
REVIEW: 10 LOVES
Reading Time: 2 minutesProduced by Magnifying Glass Theatre as its first show, 10 Loves certainly has an original premise and deserves its place in Lambeth Fringe.
REVIEW: The Hungry Ghost
Reading Time: 2 minutesinsatiable desire The Hungry Ghost can be read as a story of supernatural possession, of disordered eating, or of an insatiable hunger for love. In Mei Leng Yew’s play, these readings continually overlap where the desire for food…
REVIEW: Maya Ricote: Ay Am!
Reading Time: 2 minutesA frozen clown walks out of a fridge. She is visibly feminine, with popped-up boobs and bum, while her bright red knitted dress does little to understate them. She has just realised that she is over 90 years old, yet her frozen body remains perfectly in shape. The story follows her, an actress, as she is called to an audition for a role that could hopefully prevent her from returning to the fridge and being frozen forever—until her journey goes completely out of her control.