Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat makes this exploration especially refreshing is the film’s refusal to give it a depressing edge. Francesca McBride’s debut short, Lady Macbeth Was Never a Girl, is a delightful exploration of identity, friendship and gender. Co-produced by…
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: 3 minutesMythic Reinvention tells the Royal Exchange’s 50 year story through the costumes, people and productions that have shaped its stage For its 50th anniversary, the Royal Exchange Theatre has opened up its costume archive for Mythic Reinvention. The…
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…
Reading Time: 3 minutesPhaedra Ensemble brings Meredith Monk’s instrumental world to Kings Place with the launch of Realms, a new album five years in the making that traces a journey from strings to winds to the human voice. 1. What first…
Reading Time: 4 minutesHaving won a Binge Fringe Queer Performers Award and received a dozen four and five-star reviews, Goblin is a “seriously impressive” darkly comic solo performance about growing up, obsession and the transformative power of being seen. The show has…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVAULT Creative Arts has officially opened the Lower Marsh Arts Club, a newly refurbished permanent venue in London that will support early-career artists through a new £8,000 guarantee scheme and a free-to-participate arts festival. Formerly known…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs part of the Project a Black Planet Programme, this film screening helps us pull at the threads that hold the African diaspora together. On 6th September, the Barbican held a screening of Ola Balogun historical epic…
Reading Time: 2 minutesOverall, this was a beautiful piece with dancers demonstrating enviable mastery over their own bodies, but also how much human relationships are a part of life.
Reading Time: 3 minutesRuby (Nesba Crenshaw) and Roger (Alan Booty) are on their first date on a park bench overlooking Lewisham after matching on an online dating site. The play follows the couple on a series of dates.