Reading Time: 2 minutesPulsing with energy and emotional intensity, (Up)beat is a promising work-in-progress that blends live DJing, strong performances, and sharp writing to explore addiction, identity and connection From the moment the audience steps into the black box space of Southwark…
Reading Time: 4 minutesJack Blume. BEFORE IT HITS is a new showcase of New Musicals, all at various stages of their development, by credible emerging West End writers.
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down for a chat with Poppy Burton-Morgan about her latest project What was the transition like from poetry pamphlet to full stage performance? Well, it’s been a gradual and joyously iterative process. The show really…
Reading Time: 2 minutesShepard Tone’s ‘Director’s Cut’, which just finished its run at Southwark Playhouse Borough as part of the FORGE Festival, is an hour of genuine laughter and perfectly tailored chaos, mixed with a lesson on an old Hollywood conspiracy.
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After much success at the Edinburgh Fringe, The Pleasance Theatre welcomes the London premiere of The Last Incel. Written and directed by Jamie Sykes, this Irish dark comedy explores the inner sanctum of the involuntary celibate: the internet. Incels have been a topic of interest for quite some years now, their ideology is blamed for inspiring mass shooters and espousing fascist propaganda.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA shrewd examination of the dehumanization of vulnerable people set in a dystopian London Placed in a dystopian near future London, Diagnosis is premised on authority’s ability, or rather inability, to comprehend information from an unusual source.…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with an exclusive interview with emerging Irish writer Niall McCarthy ahead of his new show Derry Boys, running at Theatre 503 from 20th May to 7th June. Developed through Theatre503’s Rapid Write Response programme, this sharp and powerful and wryly funny new work explores identity, ambition, and what it takes to carve out a place in the world.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn her debut play, Sophie Leonie paints a vivid picture of teenage life in Finsbury Park. There are boys, bullying, friendship and of course, garage music. There is a world that is full of love and excitement, but also danger and competition.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was invited to attend a workshop production of Penny Faith and Carmel Dean’s The Ghost and Mrs Muir, based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Josephine Leslie.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA social media icon, it was only a matter of time before Anna Lapwood’s infectious charm and astonishing talent generated a sold out solo show at the Royal Albert Hall.