Maddy Price reviews Northern Ballet’s Casanova at Sadler’s Wells New narrative ballets can often be tricky – it is difficult to tell a satisfying story and fit it all into a two hour performance. They can often fall into pantomime, relying too heavily on character, dancers and mine, […]
Abigail Bryant reviews The Lounge at Soho Theatre Over the next 35 years, the proportion of the world’s population over 60 years old is set to nearly double from 12% to 22%. By 2020, the number of people over 60 will outnumber children younger than 5. Inspector Sands’ […]
Charlotte Pegram reviews Bridle at Camden People’s Theatre Three women roam the stage wearing large silicone horse heads. You might be forgiven for thinking you’ve walked into an art installation but this is a distinctly straight-talking play. And, when the horse heads come off, Bridle becomes an explosive […]
Maddy Price reviews It’s Not Yet Midnight… at The Roundhouse French performers Compagnie XY bring circus thrills to the Roundhouse in the UK premiere of their new show It’s Not yet Midnight…, an evening of cutting-edge circus and a celebration of community. It is immediately clear that this […]
Simon Ward reviews The Plague at The Arcola Theatre Albert Camus’s 1947 novel ‘La Peste’ uses the symbol of the plague to discuss France’s wartime occupation and her colonial relationships in Algeria and elsewhere. A nation may be infected for a time, then recover; but, as we learn, the […]
Paul Caira reviews Expensive Shit at Soho Theatre This is an inventive piece of theatre whose boundaries are indistinct, unlike those of the cell-like cube in which the action takes place. The steel verticals which frame the imaginary mirrors on the walls of the toilets in which the […]
Charlotte Pegram reviews The Eisteddfod at The Etcetera Theatre, Camden This play by Australian playwright, Lally Katz, is part of a double bill of plays directed by Liz Arday. The other play, Dario Fo’s A Woman Alone, complements the first and offers the viewer an evening of absurdism and surrealism. […]
Simon Ward reviews Posh at The Pleasance Theatre Posh is a polemic on the class system, which gained much of its original salience from playing while the election that brought the Bullingdon Club into office was going on. As the late, great Peter Cook opined, its success was […]
Abigail Bryant reviews Big Guns at the Yard Theatre Big Guns labels itself as a play about violence, but not in a conventional sense. This 70-minute production, written by Nina Segel and directed by Dan Hutton, explores violence in all of its vast and varied shapes, detailing how […]
Abigail Bryant reviews Kicked in the Shi*tter at the Hope Theatre, Islington Leon Fleming’s new and provocatively titled play Kicked in the Sh*tter (directed by Scott Le Crass) confronts the bleaker side of Britain’s class structure and welfare state, whilst simultaneously exploring the complexity of invisible illness. A […]
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