Amy and Tom Milne review Heads-Up at Battersea Arts Centre From Kieran Hurley’s first words, you can see why ‘Heads Up’ was 2016 Fringe First Award Winner with a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. His natural talent for storytelling, impressive pace and seemingly-effortless range means that, […]
Maddy Price reviews Rosalind at The Place Originally commissioned by the British Council as part of the Shakespeare Lives programme of anniversary events, this thrilling performance feels anything but made to a brief. Choreographer James Cousins has taken Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It, set it in Seoul […]
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 […]
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 […]
Paul Caira reviews The Wild Party at The Other Place This show’s leading strength is its wonderful choreography, created by its brilliant young director, Drew McOnie who won an Olivier for his work on In the Heights, the hip-hop musical that led to Hamilton. This is followed at […]
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 […]
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