Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Beatrice Hyde and Ben Everett Riley, playwrights of new play Namaste! coming up to the Golden Goose Theatre from October 16th and 17th.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Final Exam: Gao Kao turns the Gaokao into a literal battlefield, using physical theatre, projection and stage combat to explore academic pressure, institutional expectation and the idea that exam results can become inseparable from identity.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen Georg Büchner died in 1837, he left Woyzeck unfinished. Its fragmentary nature has invited numerous adaptations over the past century, and Franz & Marie at the Charing Cross Theatre is the latest attempt to give it a shape.
Reading Time: 4 minutesFifth Folio Theatre’s debut play Understudy No. 5 follows a janitor who finds himself possessed by minor Shakespearean characters unhappy with their lot in the original plays. We sat down with Hadrian to discuss their upcoming performance.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Jens Harzer is extraordinary” De Profundis can be read in a plethora of ways. It can be read as Oscar Wilde’s desperate love letter to Bosie (Lord Alfred Douglas), his final profound reflection on art and literature, or…
Reading Time: 3 minutesHalvard Solness, a leading architect at the height of his fame, is paralysed by fear. Fear of the younger generation. Fear of irrelevance. Fear of the past catching up with him. When young, enigmatic Hilde Wangel (Louisa Binder) bursts back into his world, she reminds him of the promise he made her ten years ago.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDo Not Pass Go is an experimental new production from award winning production company Jordan & Skinner.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBurning Down the House is an accessible, engaging and ultimately moving piece of theatre
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Silvia Manazzone, the writer, director and performer of new solo show, THE CANNONEER. This show follows the true story of Peppa, the orphan from Sicily who stole a cannon, tricked an entire cavalry and became a forgotten heroine of Italian Unification.
Reading Time: 3 minutesMagnetic North’s We Will Hear the Angels focuses on the effects of alienation of an urban landscape on five isolated individuals.