REVIEW: The Mountaintop
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne thundery night in April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr stayed at a motel in Memphis. In Katori Hall’s play, The Mountaintop, he then discovers that by tomorrow, he will be dead.
Category Theatre
REVIEW: Blood Wedding
Reading Time: 3 minutesFull Moon Theatre presents a new interpretation of Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding, staged this week at the Oxford Playhouse.
REVIEW: Natural Behaviour
Reading Time: 2 minutesBefore I watched Natural Behaviour, I had read nothing about it and assumed it would be a comedy of sorts. A satire about misfits attempting to find their place in this strange, pretentious world.
REVIEW: Red Peppers and Aged In Wood
Reading Time: 2 minutesOnBook Theatre presents a comedy double bill of Red Peppers by Noël Coward and Aged In Wood by Cian Griffin.
REVIEW: The Watch
Reading Time: 2 minutesCo-produced by Bomb Factory Theatre and Chris Edge and directed by Merle Wheldon, The Watch, a new piece by Isabella Waldron, is currently premiering at The Glitch in South London.
REVIEW: A Night Of Theatrics!
Reading Time: 2 minutesPrepare to be swept off your feet by the magic of The Phoenix Arts Club’s A Night of Theatrics! Featuring sultry burlesque numbers, incredible feats of strength, hypnotizing aerial work, and so much more, there really is something for everyone: if you’re over 18 of course.
REVIEW: Permission
Reading Time: 2 minutesHunia Chawla’s Permission is far and away the best thing I have seen. Charting the relationship between two young Pakistani women Hanna and Minza (played by Anisa Butt and Rea Malhotra Mukhtyar) as they start university, Hanna goes to England, whilst Minza stays at home in Karachi.
REVIEW: Hatch and Scratch
Reading Time: 3 minutesA monthly new writing night curated and produced by Pathway Theatre, showcasing new writing by a selection of resident and guest writers at Riverside Studios.
REVIEW: Dear England
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom multi award-winning writer James Graham (Sherwood, BBC), Dear England is a ‘gripping’ (The Times) and timely play that delves into the highs and lows of English football through the lens of Gareth Southgate’s transformative leadership. The National Theatre’s Olivier Award-winning smash hit is coming to Salford for four weeks only, following a record-breaking run in the West End.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Rosie Ward and Ursula Early
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs You Like It follows the success of last year’s Much Ado About Nothing and the company’s Offie Award-nominated A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo & Juliet. This joyful, family-friendly outdoor production blends contemporary London culture with the Bard’s wit, romance, and secret identities.