Peter Hamilton’s Playground is billed as a murder mystery set in a fragmented, broken society. Supposedly, it follows an investigation into the decapitation of several small children, all of which are found with an Enid Blyton novel laid open on their murdered bodies. In reality, the premise of this gruesome story is […]
Made in China’s last show, Gym Party, was praised for its distinctive voice and their new production, Tonight I’m Going To Be The New Me, is just as quirky and unique. It’s almost a one woman show, with Jessica Latowicki taking centre stage to dance, discuss and generally […]
‘Wait… wait… Hammerstein…Bernstein…Sondheim… Gershwin – they were Jewish? You could knock me down with a matzo.’ Thus will not be the train of thought of any but the dopiest of theatre-goers. The title of this show (yanked from Spamalot)has the remarkable property of being both obvious and wrong. […]
An empty room full of boxes, an absent mother and two warring sisters. ‘The Backward Fall’ is billed as a play about Alzheimer’s, but it’s less about the mother who suffers from the condition and more about the effect it has on her daughters. The sisters’ relationship reflects […]
A pair of one-act Noel Coward plays make up this double bill—“We Were Dancing” and “The Better Half”—with both taking on the subject of marital affairs. These are both relatively obscure Coward plays, and in fact the latter was never actually published in the playwright’s lifetime, only rediscovered […]
What are the most quoted lines from Hamlet? From Shakespeare, even? “To be, or not to be: that is the question”. So why not, as Lyndsey Turner does in her current production at the Barbican, whip the famous lines out of Act III and push them to the […]
Here’s where I stand on acrobats. (Insert joke here). I like them, I do. They are incredibly fit and strong and do things which an ordinary person not only couldn’t do without a huge injection of talent, but even then couldn’t do without a body transfusion or in […]
Last summer, this group’s offering was The Norman Conquests, a reliable staple of rep and amdram, and by all accounts capably pulled off. Maybe after that success a voice, either imagined or human murmured ‘Good dear, but try something a bit more adventurous next year’. This is it, and […]
Over the weekend, Devon’s summer arts festival Arts on the Move gathered a large audience to the gorgeous and derelict Poltimore House to soak up some culture in the sunshine. Not least among the large range of exhibitors and performers were up-and-coming Exeter youth company, The Young Pretenders. […]
As the country hit election fever-pitch, the capital has been awash with political theatre. Stories of grubby Westminster intrigue have been served to people like me who, for some reason, just can’t get enough of it all. The Candidate comes from The Lab Collective, a company that specialises […]
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