As Litmus Fest comes to an end The PEG spoke to Jessica Murrain and Lucy Bairstow from Theatre With Legs about their experience of the festival. Murrain and Bairstow performed DIGS at the Pleasance, a beautifully devised piece about what ‘home’ means. At once funny and deeply moving, it captures […]
There is much to admire in this personal story which traces the performer’s journey from debilitating illness through to recovery. Adam Pownall fell ill with Guillain-Barré syndrome (or locked in syndrome) back in 2009. The symptoms of the condition developed very quickly, and he moved from being an […]
This week saw the inaugural Litmus Fest at the Pleasance. The premise for the festival makes complete sense: to bring the creative, risk-taking spirit of the Edinburgh Fringe to London. Because, while the Pleasance is one of the best venues in Edinburgh, it sometimes takes a bit of […]
Monologues. They can fill an audience’s heart with dread, knowing that you are relying on a single actor and minimal props for the best part of an hour. Actors love them on the other hand. All eyes on them alone, their job to beguile the audience with their […]
Kenny Morgan is based on playwright Terence Rattigan’s real life love affair with the titular actor – a tale of torment that Mike Poulton tells now in imagined fact rather than Rattigan’s fiction, resulting in a script dusted with ironic discussion of the arts and performance. For someone unfamiliar […]
Here’s what’s on top of our To See list this month. They’re all Off West End shows, and some of them we’ve already been in to see. The rest will be reviewed throughout the month, but all come highly recommended. 1. Kenny Morgan at the Arcola Theatre London, […]
Smoking Apples produce theatre that combines puppetry and visual imagery, and are known for their unconventional choice of subject matter. In their latest production they tackle the fishing industry, showing the problems faced by small independent fisheries. Our main puppet character is Alf, a man who has fished […]
Two Man Show is the newest addition to the Rashdash family and it’s easy to see links to their previous shows (We Want You To Watch, Ugly Sisters) both in terms of its bold form and its rebellious content, but it’s by far their best creation. Using song, […]
Combine a pinch of Grease with your average American chick-flick, mix it together with a big dollop of ladies night sentiment and you have the fun, bubbly and fabulously sound-tracked musical that is Vanities. In its European debut, the musical explores poignant themes of unmet ambitions and expectations […]
In this distilled version of the 2014 Royal Court production, Tim Crouch explores our relationship with art and our sense of reality and what is ‘real’. During the course of the production the fictional artist, Janet Adler, is woven into academia, exploited by the film industry and commodified […]
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