Simon Ward reviews The Significant Other Festival; Conditions at The Vaults This is a series of eleven short plays, ten minutes each, commissioned by The Pensive Federation and written over the course of 5 days around the theme of The Significant Other, however that might be interpreted, and loosely […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Charlotte Pegram reviews Skin A Cat at The Bunker A fabulous way to launch the inaugural season at The Bunker, Skin A Cat by Isley Lynn fits the underground space hand in glove. A double bed sits centre stage with very little else to distract from this intimate story […]
It’s the end of the world. A great flood has swept all but four human beings into oblivion. Somehow, against the odds, four strangers manage to escape on a swan pedalo. At first the characters are fairly stereotyped: posho Steven; nerdy pessimist, Andy; spiritual nutter, Bobby; scarily competitive […]
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 […]
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