Abigail Bryant reviews One Last Thing (for now) at the Old Red Lion Romantic love in a wartime setting is no new territory for the arts, with infinite pages of literature and poetry inspired by the extremities of the human condition in this context. Althea Theatre has created […]
Charlotte Pegram review KINGS at Vault Festival After being bowled over by Happy Dave in Edinburgh this summer I was looking forward to seeing what Smoke and Oakum Theatre had to offer next. And Kings certainly satisfies expectations. A thoughtful, well-written piece of drama about homelessness in London, which confirms […]
Abigail Bryant reviews Labels at Vault Festival Running from the 1st – 5th March, Joe Sellman-Leava brings this one man show to the Vaults festival, chronicling his mixed race heritage and upbringing to explore the problematic nature of how we label ourselves and each other. An autobiographical account […]
Charlotte Pegram reviews Testament at Vault Festival Four Bible characters are plucked from the pages of the holy book and thrust into the C21st by Old Sole Theatre Company. In the safe environs of a church meeting, the four characters share their painful pasts, not necessarily to open […]
Abigail Bryant review Bucket List at The Battersea Arts Centre Theatre Ad Infinitum’s mission is to ‘create theatre that examines social and political themes through innovative storytelling and bold experimental styles.’ Bucket List, their latest production written by Nir Paldi and currently touring the UK, accomplishes this and […]
Sam Lewes reviews La Ronde at The Bunker Despite, and on occasion because of its interesting format, this modern day adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s dissection of sexual norms and morals falls short of expectations. Max Gill directs a cast of four at The Bunker, an atmospheric, subterraneous canvas which […]
Simon Ward reviews On The Crest Of A Wave at Vault Festival I don’t know how much theatre, if any, went on in the air raid shelters of WWII, but this show in The Cavern theatre at The Vaults delivers a convincing impression of what it would have […]
Abigail Bryant reviews This Must Be The Place at Vault Festival Poleroid Theatre’s This Must Be The Place insists from the outset that it ‘is not a London story.’ Despite taking place underneath the beating and rattling heart of the Capital in Waterloo’s Vaults it certainly delivers on […]
Harry Anderson reviews Worlds at Vaults Festival A hotel at the end of the world, The World’s End Inn, or ‘Worlds‘ for short. However it’s said, it’s remote, and the guests who choose to stay here have their own particular reasons for searching out such an isolated spot […]
Charlotte Pegram reviews A Year From Now at Vaults Festival 2016 wasn’t a particularly great year for most of us, so Red Belly Black Theatre Company have interviewed a host of participants to find out where they see themselves in a year from now, with the intention of […]