Abigail Bryant reviews The Drill at Battersea Arts Centre ‘If it’s not your thing, you are free to leave at any point.’ You’d be forgiven for feeling slightly dubious about a play that begins on this ominous premise, but multimedia theatre-makers Breach’s The Drill is certainly not for […]
Abigail Bryant reviews Eggsistentialism at Arcola Theatre At a time when the very notions of motherhood and reproduction are rich with fluid debate, Joanne Ryan’s Eggsistentialism is a poignant, engaging and illuminative exploration of gender and fertility. Narrated autobiographically, 35-year-old Joanne invites us to delve into her innermost […]
Abigail Bryant reviews Tiny Dynamite at Old Red Lion Theatre Bringing Abi Morgan’s Tiny Dynamite to the stage for the first time in 15 years, Time Productions have injected an ethereal and immersive ambiance to a beautifully complex play that deals with chance, regret, grief and friendship among other […]
Abigail Bryant reviews FCUK’D at The Bunker, Southwark. By nature of its name, FCUK’D doesn’t scream festive cheer – and Niall Ransome’s hour-long monologue certainly approaches Christmas spirit from an alternative angle. Set in Hull, FCUK’D explores child homelessness against the bitter December cold and an unfair, seemingly […]
Simon Ward reviews Dracula at Sutton House, Hackney Like his fellow icons of horror, Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde, Dracula has a cultural resonance out of all proportion to the few people who are familiar with the 19th-century source material. They seem to tap in to atavistic […]
Simon Ward reviews Fever Pitch The Opera at The Union Chapel The Union Chapel can lay claim to be the very heart of Islington, with the Town Hall just down the road, and the old Highbury Stadium a short walk away for the fans streaming out of the […]
Jasper Cunningham reviews Circa: Humans at the Underbelly, Edinburgh In a surprisingly spacious circus tent a group of people all the way from Australia put on a show that is both spectacular and bizarre. This piece of physical theatre combines gymnastics, dance and circus with precision that is […]
Jasper Cunningham reviews Dust at the Underbelly, Edinburgh Dust is a long way from the stand-up comedy the Fringe is known for. It is a harrowing tale told in hindsight by the protagonist, Alice, after her death. It is another example of a one-woman show done right. At […]
Jasper Cunningham reviews Victim at the Pleasance, Edinburgh With a cleverly simplistic style, Victim explores the lives of two characters; a female prison warden and an inmate in the same institution. When a new inmate with a particularly harrowing backstory arrives, the natural order of prison life is […]
Charles Blake reviews Rhapsodes at the Pleasance, Edinburgh Improv doesn’t get much harder than this. Adam Meggido and Sean McCann, stars of Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, return to the Fringe as “Rhapsodes”—a term used in ancient Greece for competitive poets. Over the course of an hour, they create […]
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