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REVIEW: America The Beautiful: Chapter 1

Reading Time: 2 minutesan exclusive collection of savage short plays offering a uniquely skewed view of life and relationships in the modern world.

Neil LaBute’s America The Beautiful: Chapter 1 makes its UK debut at the King’s Head Theatre. Comprising of three thirty-minute plays written over the past decade for the LaBute New Theater Festival in the US, the collection offers a searing, albeit varied, look at the darker side of the human condition.

The first two chapters play at King’s Head Theatre from 9–21 March.

FEATURE: The Serpentine Reader 2nd Edition

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Serpentine Reader launched its second edition earlier this week, inviting readers to hear live readings from contributors at a free event. The magazine is a new part of the galleries’ wider artistic mission and aims to…

REVIEW: Life Before You

Reading Time: 2 minutesA thoughtful and emotionally intelligent portrait of mothers, daughters and the distances between them “The cord being cut again”. In Life Before You’s opening moments, we glimpse what is yet to come: the painful severing of a…

REVIEW: The Bacchae

Reading Time: 2 minutesEuripides’ Bacchae premiered in 405 B.C, winning first place in the City Dionysia drama competition. In the two millennia that have followed, the play has been reimagined countless times, in countless different iterations. This particular adaptation brought to life by Company of Wolves interprets the show as a one man monologue, adapted and performed by Ewan Downie.

REVIEW: Age is a feeling

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe time is finally here: the doors of the long-awaited Soho Theatre Walthamstow are open. And on arrival, the space itself is a spectacle. With the trademark palette of the much-loved venue on Dean Street, this brand-new big sibling looks like it belongs in the West End.