REVIEW: The Mountaintop
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne thundery night in April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr stayed at a motel in Memphis. In Katori Hall’s play, The Mountaintop, he then discovers that by tomorrow, he will be dead.
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REVIEW: Blood Wedding
Reading Time: 3 minutesFull Moon Theatre presents a new interpretation of Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding, staged this week at the Oxford Playhouse.
REVIEW: Come Fall In Love – The DDLJ Musical
Reading Time: 2 minutesCome Fall in Love – The DDLJ Musical, the stage adaptation of the Bollywood blockbuster Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ to its legions of fans), lands in Manchester with a bright heart, a dazzling set, and a thoroughly Western-Bollywood fusion that feels both nostalgic and new.
REVIEW: Natural Behaviour
Reading Time: 2 minutesBefore I watched Natural Behaviour, I had read nothing about it and assumed it would be a comedy of sorts. A satire about misfits attempting to find their place in this strange, pretentious world.
REVIEW: Red Peppers and Aged In Wood
Reading Time: 2 minutesOnBook Theatre presents a comedy double bill of Red Peppers by Noël Coward and Aged In Wood by Cian Griffin.
REVIEW: Shhh! The Musical
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere’s something joyfully chaotic about Shhh!: The Musical – an hour of high-energy, youthful performances that wears its message on its sleeve, even as it’s busy breaking into song and throwing itself to the floor in the name of comedy.
REVIEW: WIGGY
Reading Time: 2 minutesThought-provoking conversations on race and extreme paranoia are the highlights of this experimental show. What if a Get Out situation wasn’t real? What if it was all in our heads?WIGGY, by writer and lead actress Chelsea Bondzanga…
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Mojisola Adebayo
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe set down for a quick chat with Mojisola Adebayo ahead of the premiere of her latest project STARS: An Afrofuturist Space Odyssey. Mojisola, STARS has been described as everything from an “Afrofuturist space odyssey” to a “concept…
REVIEW: The Watch
Reading Time: 2 minutesCo-produced by Bomb Factory Theatre and Chris Edge and directed by Merle Wheldon, The Watch, a new piece by Isabella Waldron, is currently premiering at The Glitch in South London.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Daljit Nagra and Liz Berry
Reading Time: 3 minutesPoetry By Heart, founded in 2012 by former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and Dr Julie Blake, is a national poetry recitation competition open to all schools and colleges in England. This year, over 128,000 young people chose, memorised, and performed a poem they love.
Finalists compete at the Grand Finale at Shakespeare’s Globe on 7 July, with 40 finalists in the Classic category and 15 schools in Freestyle, celebrating creativity and inclusion. Three schools will receive special awards.
Judges include poets Daljit Nagra, Patience Agbabi, Liz Berry, Valerie Bloom, Glyn Maxwell, and Jean Sprackland. We sat down with judges Daljit Nagra and Liz Berry.