IN CONVERSATION WITH: Paul Keating
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Paul to talk about CLIVE, who will play Thomas in this strange, funny, and heartbreakingly human play by Olivier and BAFTA award-winning playwright Michael Wynne.
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REVIEW: Mahler’s Seventh
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe BBC Proms has once again proven itself as a beacon of bold programming, this time weaving together two major works united by the theme of night, memory, and spectral encounters.
REVIEW: Don’t Rock The Boat
Reading Time: 2 minutesTheir latest production of Don’t Rock The Boat, fits neatly into this category. A rather lengthy comedy by Robin Hawdon, this play tells the story of two families staying on a houseboat for a weekend and the drama that ensues.
REVIEW: 1.17am or until the words run out
Reading Time: 2 minutesZoe Hunter-Gordon’s writing expertly weaves together these powerful ingredients of tension, creating a hair-raising 70 minutes of stunning realism that offers a profound meditation on what it feels like to lose people in our life, and the pain of discovering a different side to the ones you love.
REVIEW: Sing Street
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn an era when West End productions increasingly rely on film and TV stars to guarantee ticket sales, Sing Street—a beloved film adaptation and Broadway transfer—sounds like another safe bet. Yet, the Lyric Hammersmith’s production crackles with such vitality that it doesn’t just entertain; it ignites. This is theatre at its most alive.
REVIEW: First Night At The Proms
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe First Night of the BBC Proms was suitably majestic. The room pulsated with respect and anticipation; as the orchestra prepared to strum and string (and all the other things they do), the reverential silence was palpable.
REVIEW: The Play’s The Thing
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis three-part play encapsulating the events surrounding a one-woman show at a pub theatre is not only self-aware of its setting in the most delightful of ways; it also becomes a sort of love letter to pub theatre generally that speaks directly and intelligently from a heart that both knows and wishes it well.
REVIEW: Songs of the Bulbul
Reading Time: 2 minutesThough Songs of the Bulbul is primarily inspired by Sufic art, particularly its music and poetry, it is also a deeply personal work created in memory of Odedra’s late mother.
REVIEW: As You Like It
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs far as accessible and outdoorsy Early Modern comedies go, As You Like It is a pretty intuitive candidate. A split setting between town and woods allows East London Shakespeare Festival to make clever use of not only their parkland surroundings, but also the facade of Clissold House in Stoke Newington – a building whose period brickwork and Victorian austerity all but meld into the show’s own set-pieces.
REVIEW: I Didn’t Know I Was Polish
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis show is a 1 hour love letter to Europe without sycophancy. It explores the notion, so familiar to a lot of us, that we can often feel culturally within and without. What does it mean to be “from” somewhere anyway? It’s like if Agnѐs Varda poppedinto the passport office: bureaucracy, but make it art.