Reading Time: 2 minutesCabaret Havana is set across two times and places. We begin in a dystopian future, where in the year 2033, all arts students are forced to give up their dreams and train for jobs which are more ‘productive’.
Reading Time: 3 minutesI believe one of the hallmarks of Chekhov’s work is the thinly drawn line between love and hatred, melancholy and absurdity, tragedy and farce.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBerlin is billed as a “dark comedy […] that explores grief, toxic masculinity and betrayal.” The story, inspired in part by the suicide of Ian Curtis, is the reuniting of a once-prominent britpop band after the death of their lead singer three years earlier.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe 18-25 Bush Young Company promises an explosive debut, and certainly delivers. It had been a while since I’d been to such an electric piece of theatre, to a show provoking riotous laughter, pensive nods and even cheers of recognition.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe premise is simple, an exploration of love between a man and his best friend's alter ego, Candy the drag queen.
Reading Time: 3 minutesCamden Fringe is such a great opportunity to see promising new writing talent, and Blue Balloons Pink fits the bill.
Reading Time: 4 minutesGet Up, Stand Up! is a bold musical with an extraordinarily talented cast and crew, but it is disappointingly hampered by fatal flaws in its script.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMediocre White Male is an hour-long one-man show written and directed by Will Close and Joe Von Malachowski, as part of the Boys! Boys! Boys! season at the King’s Head after runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and Park Theatre.
Reading Time: 3 minutesBi Bi Baileigh is a 1 man show depicting a young veterinary student living in London. Baileigh identifies as a gay man “and proud of it” but he finds himself lonely and longing for a boyfriend.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMelissa Stephens opens with a 'borrowed' joke about being Southern Trash which immediately sets the tone of this stand up show.