Review: Super Sunday, Roundhouse
If you want to see a show that will make your jaw hit the floor, then Race Horse Company’s Super Sunday, currently playing at the Roundhouse, will do just that. Set in a surreal amusement park and...
View ArticleReview: Darknet, Southwark Playhouse
Trying to render the internet onto the stage has over the past few years, proven incredibly hard to do successfully. The sheer breadth of the internet, with all the many issues it raises, certainly...
View ArticleReview: Blind Man’s Song, Pleasance Theatre
Blind Man’s Song, currently playing at the Pleasance Theatre, uses music and movement to explore the themes of love, memory and connection. While certainly these are fertile grounds for exploration,...
View ArticleReview: Dancehall, Samuel Beckett Theatre
Ireland has an incredibly interesting historical relationship to dance – most notably the 1935 Public Dancehalls Act, which censored Ireland’s social scene based on the fear that unsupervised dancing...
View ArticleReview: La Bohème, London Coliseum
For visually striking productions full of life and colour, you never need to look much further than director Benedict Andrew’s work, and his latest production of La Bohème for the English National...
View ArticleReview: Portrait, Stratford Circus
There’s nothing more exciting than feeling like you’ve stumbled upon a truly promising writer and performer at the start of their artistic journey. Rachel Ofori, who wrote and delivers her first one...
View ArticleReview: The Hairy Ape, Old Vic
The Hairy Ape, currently playing at the Old Vic, is indeed a strange beast. An expressionist play by Eugene O’Neill, it follows Yank (Bertie Carvel) in his rallying cry against a world that he feels...
View ArticleReview: Dry Land, Jermyn Street Theatre
Not for the faint of heart, Dry Land, currently running at the Jermyn Street Theatre, delves into the real lives of two teenage girls in Florida, exposing with biting honesty just how confused and...
View ArticleReview: wonder.land, National Theatre
wonder.land, currently running at the National Theatre, joins the recent army of plays attempting to tackle the internet and all the issues it raises, in this instance by appropriating Lewis Carroll’s...
View ArticleReview: Made Visible, Yard Theatre
What differentiates theatre from a lecture, a university debate or an essay? These days it’s not always clear. We live in the age of ‘issue plays’ – work that seeks to ‘tackle’ contentious topics,...
View ArticleReview: Super Sunday, Roundhouse
If you want to see a show that will make your jaw hit the floor, then Race Horse Company’s Super Sunday, currently playing at the Roundhouse, will do just that. Set in a surreal amusement park and...
View ArticleReview: Darknet, Southwark Playhouse
Trying to render the internet onto the stage has over the past few years, proven incredibly hard to do successfully. The sheer breadth of the internet, with all the many issues it raises, certainly...
View ArticleReview: Blind Man’s Song, Pleasance Theatre
Blind Man’s Song, currently playing at the Pleasance Theatre, uses music and movement to explore the themes of love, memory and connection. While certainly these are fertile grounds for exploration,...
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