REVIEW: We Will Hear The Angels
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.
Category Theatre
REVIEW: Eurydice: Lost in the Underworld
Reading Time: 3 minutesGutter Theatre’s Eurydice at Assembly Roxy is an ambitious retelling of Sarah Ruhl’s modern take on the Greek myth. For anyone unfamiliar, the story follows Eurydice, who dies on her wedding day and enters the underworld, where she meets her father and tries to remember who she was in life.
REVIEW: Hay Fever
Reading Time: 2 minutesWinsomely delivered by a beautifully balanced cast, this Hay Fever finds fresh life in Coward’s comic rhythms Noël Coward’s family of attention-seeking creatives turns a few house guests into unwilling participants in its private drama, and Emily…
REVIEW: Fences
Reading Time: 3 minutesAssociate partner of the Oxford Playhouse, Headlong, offer a complex and brooding take on August Wilson’s 1985 classic play, Fences.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Grace Gallagher and Rachael Smart
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Grace Gallagher and Rachael Smart, directors of STUFFED. Food poverty isn’t funny. Clowns generally are. Somewhere between the two sits STUFFED, Ugly Bucket’s riotous, uncompromising response to the UK’s growing food poverty crisis.
REVIEW: A Mirror
Reading Time: 3 minutesSam Holcroft’s 2023 dystopian censorship play A Mirror follows the inner workings of the Ministry of Culture, the propagandist arm of the reigning totalitarian regime.
REVIEW: Extremism
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs someone who attended an inner-city state school where the PREVENT campaign was in operation, often right under our noses, I was keen to see this iteration of Anders Lustgarten’s play, Extremism, which attempts to grapple with the shortfalls and harm caused by the PREVENT campaign.
REVIEW: Love vs Fear and My Mother’s Prayers
Reading Time: 3 minutes‘Could you please scan this barcode to participate in the interactive element of the show?’ the ticket officer asks as the audience arrives for Love vs Fear and My Mother’s Prayers.
REVIEW: Measure for Measure
Reading Time: 3 minutesMeasure for Measure at Riverside Studios is Shakespeare’s great problem play; in the city-state of Vienna ruled by Duke Vincentio, the Duke chooses to leave his puritanical deputy Angelo in his authority during his absence.
FEATURE: The Afronauts Launch
Reading Time: 2 minutesFive weeks to the moon! In 1964 Zambia won its independence, and a schoolteacher announced that the new nation would beat the superpowers to the moon. It sounds invented, which is presumably why the Royal Court's release calls it "true(ish)". Ryan Calais Cameron's The Afronauts sets out to put the story back on the record, and it has five weeks of rehearsal in which to do so.