Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s 1928. Lila is all alone in a hospital for the criminally insane. Without any support, she is forced to face her secrets and the darkness of her past that led to her imprisonment “Packed with playful poetry and vivid trauma,” says the description, though this one-woman show from Shea Donovan perhaps struggles with the latter claim.
Reading Time: 2 minutes A relatable and entertaining Scouse classic, bringing the class divisions of the late 20th century to light. Having studied Blood Brothers back in school, I was really looking forward to seeing it on the stage. Let me…
Reading Time: 3 minutesKing Hamlin tells the story of a teenage boy with aspirations of doing well in school and going to university to become a software engineer, before life gets in the way and he gets dragged into the world of drug dealing and gangs. There is definitely a good play somewhere within that premise, unfortunately King Hamlin is not that play.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA Single Man at the Park Theatre London is a 2-Act Play based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood, and made more famous by the 2009 film starring Colin Firth.
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: 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.