REVIEW: This Grief Thing
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis Grief Thing isn’t a shop. Not really. It’s a space to really sit with our grief. Stepping into This Grief Thing, you might feel unsure about what you are walking into. A shop, about grief? The…
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REVIEW: Talking People – Feb 16th
Reading Time: 2 minutesTalking People tells stories through directed improvisation, with lightly prepared characters and narratives built in the moment using audience prompts, a Bag of Pain, relationship cards and the director’s guiding hand.
REVIEW: Iolanthe
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Gilbert and Sullivan classic, Iolanthe was produced during the peak of the composers’ collaboration, opening on the same night in 1882 in both London and New York. This production joined the list of ‘Savoy Operas’, shows performed in the Savoy Theatre which was purposely built to showcase the work of the famed duo.
REVIEW: EXPÖSED
Reading Time: 2 minutesEXPÖSED is a 21st-century adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s folktale The Emperor’s New Clothes.
REVIEW: Shenoah Allen: Bloodlust Summertime
Reading Time: 2 minutesShenoah Allen really understands his audience. It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Brits love an eccentric underdog. Unlike the Americans who love a cocky winner, we love to root for the less-egregious, the self-deprecating, the weird.
REVIEW: ENO’s Cosi fan tutte
Reading Time: 2 minutesENO’s production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte returns to the London Coliseum. ENO (English National Opera ) performs all its operas in English so audiences can understand the drama directly without linguistic barriers.
REVIEW: Saint Joan at the Citizen’s Theatre
Reading Time: 3 minutesBlistering, Bare and Impossible to Ignore Saint Joan, based on George Bernard Shaw’s classic play, comes to the Citizens’ Theatre in a stripped-back, modernised take drawn directly from the unseen screenplay. The play follows the true story…
REVIEW: Ballet Icons Gala
Reading Time: 3 minutesAnniversary galas should invite reflection, or at least a vague sense of what has come before. The 20th anniversary Ballet Icons Gala, however, felt curiously unstructured: a sequence of celebrated pas de deux and contemporary fragments assembled without a clear thematic thread.
REVIEW: “Wuthering Heights” At BFI IMAX
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe most talked-about film since Wicked, Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights has generated both hype and controversy.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Michael Bontatibus
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for a quick chat with Michael Bontatibus about his latest project. Witness brings its 8-hour Oresteia adaptation, Ritual, to London, featuring an actor performing the entire duration in an immersive space where audiences are…