Reading Time: 3 minutesLa Bella Bimba! is an exciting new cabaret about immigration and traditions, about personal growth and funky pink feathers. We sat down with Lucrezia Galeone to discuss their upcoming production.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“When I write as me, the words don’t come.” It’s a feeling all too relatable for anyone who’s ever sat down to create — let alone to write a debut novel with agents, publishers, and partners past and present breathing down your neck.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOpening to a full house, ‘Private Lives’, directed by Tanuja Amarasuriya spun a wonderful web of satirical quabbles, ugly fights and scarily accurate encounters that happen within complex relationships.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a double-bill, the two short, twentieth century operas Der Wald and Lucrezia are currently being shown at Guildhall School of Music and Drama to showcase the work of their student musicians and technicians.
Reading Time: 6 minutesWorking Class Hero is an absurdist satire in which two actors put on some silly wigs (and accents) and take us on a high-speed romp through the British class system. We sat down with Theo Hristov to discuss their upcoming production.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUrooj Ashfaq’s How to Be a Baddie was funny, conversational and cosy. Both the set up, Urooj’s confidence and storytelling invited us into the world of being a female Indian comedian, as she strives to counter an unnamed reviewers suggestion that she wasn’t quite as edgy as she may be deemed in India.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“This visually striking play explores the bleak reality of pyromania, and the complex burden of familial duty in a slow-burn setting” A comically unsettling atmosphere was instantly created in the pre show- retro songs referencing the use…
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Imagine Saw, if it came with party games and a Billy Ray Cyrus soundtrack.” “Are we in Hell?” asks Mitchell. It’s not an unreasonable question — trapped in a mysterious room, he is blindfolded, bound to stranger…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Emmanuel Pichardo Caballero. Emmanuel is the actor/playwright/director of the show, Waiting for Julieta, which is a bold Mexican reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragedy to Voila! Europe Theatre Festival 2025.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith Elizabeth Huskisson being the first playwright to be commissioned by the police, I was interested to see the kind of work she might create for an institution which has historically—and recently—been criticised as one riddled with systemic misogyny, racism, transphobia, homophobia and ableism.