REVIEW: Scummy Mummies
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe ‘Scummy Mummies’ are celebrating their 10th anniversary with a live tour of their ’Greatest Hits’.
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REVIEW: La Traviata
Reading Time: 2 minutesLa Traviata (The Fallen Woman) is Verdi’s 1853 opera about Violetta, a beautiful courtesan, and Alfredo, her devoted admirer, who despite falling madly in love are pulled apart by family, circumstance and general tragedy, reuniting finally as Violetta succumbs to the consumption which shortens her tumultuous life.
REVIEW: The Kite Runner
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe epic novel, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, gracefully takes flight onto UK stages in a production skillfully crafted by Matthew Spangler.
REVIEW: BBC SO Total Immersion: Italian Radicals
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the intimate confines of the Barbican, a musical odyssey unfolds, transporting audiences into the fervent hearts and visionary minds of post-war Italian composers.
REVIEW: Su Mi: Banana Beard
Reading Time: 2 minutesSu welcomes us into her work in progress performance of Su Mi: Banana Beard, firstly acknowledging the fact that it was a WIP, a work in progress, tells the audience what to do, in case something goes wrong, ‘It’s all part of the plan’, she says, making the audience repeat it several times. But I am believed to think nothing went wrong.
REVIEW: Kunstler
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe European premiere of Kunstler brings a controversial American figure to the UK stage; Jeff McCarthy plays real-life lawyer William Kunstler, who delivers an imagined university lecture, dramatised by playwright Jeffrey Sweet. Nykila Norman plays Kerry, the fictional law student hosting Kunstler’s lecture who is torn between apologising for and sympathising with the protesters outside the hall.
REVIEW: The Winter’s Tale
Reading Time: 2 minutesSince Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet in 1965, no Shakespearean play has even been transcribed into ballet. This is somewhat in conceivable: how can you translate the epitome of Shakespearean language into sole physicality while still retain the substantial qualities of his plays? Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon took this challenge in 2014 together with composer Joby Talbot, successfully transforming The Winter's Tale into another in-house Shakespearean repertoire of the Royal Ballet. Now, a decade later, Wheeldon revisits this masterpiece with some upgraded technologies, but preserves the essence of this tragicomedy.
REVIEW: Liberation Squares
Reading Time: 2 minutesCommissioned by Fifth Word comes Liberation Squares, a new play from award-winning playwright Sonali Bhattacharya, showcased at Brixton House. Directed by two-time Oliver Award Nominee Milli Bhatia, we follow the stories of three young women and hear their side of the story in an age where freedom of speech is slowly being chipped away.
REVIEW: A Word For Mother
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA Word For Mother is the newest play to inhabit the versatile space Upstaits at the Gatehouse. This time transformed by Lillian Caccia into a kitchen, with full lived in cupboards and fridge. Pictures and knick-knacks fill the space, imbuing it with life.
REVIEW: King Lear
Reading Time: 2 minutesTang Shu-Wing Theatre Studio’s European premier of King Lear, directed by Shu-Wing Tang, takes London by storm with this fascinating and terrifying interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s most renowned plays.