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REVIEW: Why I am and why I am not

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the civic imagination, a balcony suggests authority: a ruler greeting the crowd, a politician delivering promises, a monarch acknowledging applause. In Why I Am and Why I Am Not, the balcony of the old town hall becomes something else entirely. It becomes a place for ordinary declaration.

REVIEW: Life Before You

Reading Time: 2 minutesA thoughtful and emotionally intelligent portrait of mothers, daughters and the distances between them “The cord being cut again”. In Life Before You’s opening moments, we glimpse what is yet to come: the painful severing of a…

REVIEW: Sailmaker

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn a tale from a bygone Scottish era, there is still be a story relevant to the present Set in 1960s Glasgow, Sailmaker focuses on a Scotland that no longer exists. While elements still linger, the country…

REVIEW: The Bacchae

Reading Time: 2 minutesEuripides’ Bacchae premiered in 405 B.C, winning first place in the City Dionysia drama competition. In the two millennia that have followed, the play has been reimagined countless times, in countless different iterations. This particular adaptation brought to life by Company of Wolves interprets the show as a one man monologue, adapted and performed by Ewan Downie.

REVIEW: Age is a feeling

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe time is finally here: the doors of the long-awaited Soho Theatre Walthamstow are open. And on arrival, the space itself is a spectacle. With the trademark palette of the much-loved venue on Dean Street, this brand-new big sibling looks like it belongs in the West End.