The Collector The Vaults, Waterloo The Vaults can never be anything other than atmospheric. There are different stages and different seating styles, but watching anything underneath Waterloo Station with the occasional muffled thunder of trains overhead is always thrilling. Layer on the period charms of a bar furnished […]
NO QUARTER by Polly Stenham Duelling Productions, Network Theatre 13th-16th July. Tree-climbing, exploring, scraped knees, mysterious hidden worlds of our own, no grown-ups allowed; we all look back with nostalgia on our childhoods, often tinting them with colours and emotions entirely of our own construction. However, for No […]
How To Win Against History The Oval House 21 Jul – 23 Jul, 7:30pm How To Win Against History is a three man musical which charts the life of Henry Paget, 5th Marquis of Anglesey. Regrettably, the full account of this man’s life was lost to the ashes, […]
Cargo is a powerful piece of drama. Taking over studio 2 in the Arcola theatre, it transforms the space into a shipping container. The audience are seated in the round on (uncomfortable) shrink-wrapped palettes. The lighting is dim and the sounds are those of huge cargo ships as […]
It’s not often you get a chance to see a little-known 17th century French comedy put on in London, let alone one performed in French and English on alternate nights – so when the chance to watch The Doctor in Spite of Himself came up, I was understandably […]
Draw on your memories of the very worst nights out as a late teen/early twenty-something. Exactly. You’d rather not remember. Screwed gives centre stage- or centre space on the sticky dance floor- to Charlene and Luce, two friends who have dedicated the majority of their lives to drinking, […]
Far removed from the school hours spent uncomprehendingly tripping through Hamlet’s soliloquy a line at a time, Howard Barker’s Gertrude – The Cry is abundant in sexual manipulation, self-destructive obsession and finally a female perspective on what is arguable Shakespeare’s most famous play. Perhaps Mr Eaton would have […]
A quarter mile long and packed with a myriad of human stories, the tale of the Titanic is epic in proportions, and yet Thom Southerland and Danielle Tarento’s production retells the tragedy with heart felt simplicity. After its hugely successful run at Southwark Playhouse in 2013, the musical […]
‘Middle-aged man in crisis deals with his issues in an anonymous hotel room’ is becoming an overcrowded genre. The film Lost in Translation (whose movie poster this production deliberately echoes, though with what purpose is unclear), and much more recently the brilliant Anomalisa were of this sort, and […]
‘This is Living’ takes place on a small stage soaked in water. A sodden platform that confines the two central characters in a purgatory-like space for the play’s two-hour duration. As the action unfolds we see that this minimalist setting works perfectly with the narrative themes; drifting through memories […]
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