Do not feel the need to adjust the lights. Remain calm. You’ve just entered the post-apocalypse. And the post-apocalypse has entered the stage in this almost riveting piece by American playwright Anne Washburn. Of course, it isn’t the first play to be set after the end of the world as we know it (Hello?Endgame?!). […]
A Bad Case Of The Mondays is a series of 7 short plays on at the Park Theatre every Monday evening in the month of January and features tales of that imminent day we all dread on a Sunday evening as we ready ourselves for the week. This is by far one of Paradigm Theatre’s […]
Much attention has been given to David Tennant’s 80s glam rock locks but it is his playful, enjoyably spontaneous and glorious portrayal of a King in demise we should all be focused on. Tennant gives an exhilarating performance as King Richard the II in the RSC’s latest offering at the Barbican. The Barbican’s grand theatre […]
Plays can be drawn from an endless amount of sources . The narrative can be inspired by a building , one phrase , a glance or, in the case of the play ‘Lizzie Siddal ‘, a woman in a painting by a revered artist. In this original production written by Jeremy Green, John Everett Millais’ […]
The Script Sessions have presented yet another evening of new writing this time in collaboration with John Burgess who co-founded the National Studio Theatre and was Head of New Writing at the National from 1989-1994. This evening showcases 6 of his past students’ short plays and was also developed with the Duckdown Theatre company to […]
You’d think that seeing Lorca’s Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding) twice before would give me some authority and make me feel uber-qualified to pass judgement on any new production. But it is a testament to the richness of the work that neither the off-broadway production that I saw in Spanish nor the intense and intimate […]
Barely a week after the last Tory MP has drank the last drop of Bollinger left in Manchester playing the turbo round of the conference cliché drinking game, days after each party has vied with each other to sound more xenophobic than the other two, onto the stage above the Hen & Chickens dashes The […]
Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, currently on at The Almeida, fierce, courageous, unflinching and at times bitterly painful exploration of grief, suffering, the necessity of deceit, and the willingness to sacrifice for loved ones. Having said all this, if you’re looking for the uplifting, life-affirming moment, the pregnant-with-meaning, didactic glow at the of this great theatrical ‘journey’ […]
Based on the experiences of political agitators kept in Rawson political prison during Argentina’s dictatorship in the 1970s, and primarily of Teatro Malayerba company director Aristides Vargas’ brother Chico, who was an inmate for ten years, La Razón Blindada (The Bulletproof Reason) is an intense exploration of the condition of imprisonment, loneliness, of fear, […]
Jennifer Essex is a contemporary dancer and choreographer who works across the artistic spectrum from film, fashion to physical theatre. She is currently working with the Poise Performance Company on a unique retelling of Oscar Wilde’s ‘Dorian Gray’ which will open on the 7th of October at The CLF Art Cafe aka The Bussey […]
