Reading Time: 4 minutesBullock Creek, South Carolina, 1862. As war rages beyond the plantation, Ginnie Good raises her five children in a cabin that will outlast them all. Today. At the same cabin, now a trendy Airbnb, a pregnant Black woman uses conjure…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA young man with a furrowed brow in a shabby, hole-ridden black coat walks slowly across the stage, bent over with the weight of a stone. He stops at one end, pauses; then turns around to walk back again. To adapt one of the greatest novels ever written is a similar task - just when you feel you can rest, another route must be taken, another avenue explored.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith a palpable commitment to its subject matter, the UK premiere of Let Her Liv* introduced London to a play that knows what it wants to say. Let Her Liv* had its UK premiere with a 2-night…
Reading Time: 2 minutes“A striking tribute to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal disaster” Darkling is a striking tribute to the victims of the 1984 Bhopal disaster, carefully told by a brilliantand thoughtful team. Titas Halder’s play preserves the humanness…
Reading Time: 3 minutesOxford Playhouse associate partner Headlong returns to the city for August Wilson’sFences, playing from Wed 30 Sep – Sat 3 Oct. Set in the 1950s, it is a timeless and deeplyhuman portrait of grief, love and what…
Reading Time: 3 minutesToy Soldier is a play about family and survival set against the backdrop of one of the most harrowing conflicts in modern history. We sat down for an exclusive interview with Helen Goodman, Co-Writer & Director of the Toy Soldier, to discuss the upcoming performance.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom the start, it needs to be said: Tilda Swinton is impeccable. In Man to Man at the Royal Court, she gives a performance so absorbing that even when the text becomes difficult to follow, the person standing before the audience remains impossible to look away from.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA play about climate change that feels like a play about climate change We need plays about climate change. John Webber valiantly rises to the challenge with Fire Fire but gives us a rather predictable premise: the…
Reading Time: 2 minutes50 years after it’s debut, Ntozake Shange’s seminal play for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, finds a home in the UK at the Yard Theatre.
Reading Time: 2 minutesa play asking urgent questions about generational responsibility and the right to not feel old Originally written and performed at the Royal Court in 2016, The Children may still remain one of the best, if not the best, post-apocalypse…