Reading Time: 3 minutesPlaying at Richmond’s Orange Tree Theatre until the 12th November, Sugar Water delves into the relationship between Alice (Katie Erich) and Phil (Adam Fenton), with no painful, cringeworthy or intimate detail left unshared.
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’m not joking – it is imperative that you mime putting down your teacup, tie your imaginary shoelaces, have a think about what rhymes with ‘lackadaisical’ and run, don’t walk, to a world of musical improbability at the Hackney Empire.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUnknown from Dougie Blaxland is an intimate and challenging look at homelessness which hits home hard.
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Strictly Ballroom’ follows the story of Scott, an accomplished ballroom dancer, Fran, a beginner ballroom dancer, their contrasting families, and a struggle to break free from expectations and pressure.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Moors, by American playwright Jen Silverman and showing at the Hope Theatre from the 11th October – 5th November, is an evocative piece of gothic horror that riffs on the experiences, imaginations and preoccupations of the Brontë sisters.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBlues for an Alabama Sky is an elegy for the lost potentiality of liberation in the Harlem Renaissance and yet a celebration of its vivaciousness.
Reading Time: 3 minutesNeon Dance presents Prehension Blooms, an interactive contemporary dance show that brings to The Place a perfect blend of art and technology by incorporating spectacular performers with the latest in AI robotic technology.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Poltergeist is a bitterly hilarious, unrelentingly uncomfortable and totally exhilarating piece of theatre.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Choir of Man started life in at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with its debut performance in 2017. It is now back for 2022, and I absolutely loved it.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis collaboration between Mariana Aristizabal Pardo & Malena Arcucci (MarianaMalena Theatre Company) and Guido García Lueches is an absolute delight.