What do grief, crime films and doughnuts have in common? Upon first glance very little; however, in Finella Waddilove’s Doughnut Drive they are thrown together in the most unlikely way to create an undeniably hilarious, if dark, comedy.
We all know the names ‘Bletchley’ and ‘Alan Turing’, if only thanks to the 2014 film The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
Glamorous and mythic, the Mitford sisters often feel like untouchable figures of the past, central to the tumultuous politics of the interwar period and yet forgotten amidst the rollcall of far more significant names.
When thinking of the classic settings for a heartfelt story about friendship and emotional vulnerability, a construction site is not somewhere that typically comes to mind.
Arguably the best approach for tackling serious themes is to tell their stories through the eyes of innocence, viewing large historical events through the everyday consequences as experienced by children.
Have you ever really stopped to consider the significance of sound, of speech, on everyday life… on theatre? Many of us take these things for granted, yet Ad Infinitum’s new play throws the realities of being deaf into sharp relief.
A woman’s story is a valuable thing, the trials of experience typically being viewed as under discussed even within modern literature.
A courtroom is a place of tradition, of cold reason rather than emotional responses.
Is serial killing ever a forgivable act? A controversial question certainly and the central premise of Bryony Lavery’s Frozen.
Many of us ask ourselves about the definition of love, what is the purest form perhaps, or what does it mean to make promises while in love.
What is theatre fundamentally about? Why do we create any form of literature or performance? Why do we tell stories? Stories are such a formative part of life, forging our knowledge of the world and helping to bring communities together.
A person’s life can be dictated by many things - career, relationships, decisions made… In the case of Andrée Bernard’s What (is) a Woman it seems that men have dictated the protagonist’s life.
Art mimics life, or so we are always led to believe.
Fresh from a UK tour and three years after the Amazon Prime movie, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is back in London.
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