Review: REMYTHED, King's Head Theatre
“Stories are always being put through the wash, and end up with a sock in there which was never there before.
“Stories are always being put through the wash, and end up with a sock in there which was never there before.
Remythed reimagines and retells the stories of famous and forgotten LGBTQIA+ figures from the past, reshaping what queer history could look like and putting queer joy in the front and centre of the narrative.
Now at its second run and presented in an updated version, Cutting the Tightrope puts together a list of brilliant playwrights (Hassan Abdulrazzak, Mojisola Adebayo, Phil Arditti, Sonali Bhattacharyya, Nina Bowers, Roxy Cook, Ed Edwards, Afsaneh Gray, Dawn King, Ahmed Masoud, Joel Samuels, Sami Abu
Cutting the Tightrope; a collection of short political plays in response to warnings that artists shouldn't be political will be performed at the Arcola Theatre from 26th November - 7th December 2024
BWW caught up with Roann Hassani McCloskey and Joel Samuels about bringing Remythed to the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Cast announced for CUTTING THE TIGHTROPE: THE DIVORCE OF POLITICS FROM ART.
The Hope Theatre is set to close in its current form.
The first casting announcement has been revealed for the anticipated Australian production of 2:22 - A Ghost Story, with one of Australia's most highly regarded leading actors, Daniel MacPherson, confirmed to play the role of 'Ben'.
Save up to 50% on Sugar Coat; A feminist gig theatre show about love, loss and lubrication.
Sugar Coat is a piece of gig theatre, telling a story of growing up, trauma, and sex through pop punk music.
ReMythed zhuzhes up a series of fables, giving it a queer spin, to put what many consider “modern concepts” in perspective and combating LGBTQ+ erasure.
After an acclaimed run at VAULT Festival in 2020, the feminist pop-punk hit Sugar Coat comes to Southwark Playhouse this spring.
The follow-up show, Who Murdered My Cat? debuts at the same theatre on 24th/25th September 2021.
From the award winning writer Joel Samuels (A Wake in Progress, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019) and producers of Fringe First award winning show Bobby & Amy (Edinburgh Fringe 2019) comes Sugar Coat, a new live music play about love, loss and lubrication.
Award-winning writer and performer Roann McCloskey dons her dungarees once again to bring us Who Murdered My Cat? - a brand new meander through the mind of a woman bound for self-discovery with a promise to leave no (wo)man behind.
Anonymous Is A Woman strikes again with a disquieting site-specific show about consent and its withdrawal.
For VAULT Festival 2019, Fine Mess Theatre present a thoroughly modern play about death.
How do people miss the signals of someone withdrawing consent? Inspired by the Aziz Ansari scandal, Madeline Gould and Joel Samuels have both written monologues for characters on a date without conferring.
Sonia Friedman Productions and the Almeida Theatre today announce full casting for the West End transfer of Ink, written by James Graham (This House), which will play a limited season at the Duke of York's Theatre from 9 September, following a sold-out run at the Almeida Theatre.
Fine Mess Theatre will bepresenting the World Premiere of their tragicomic one man show The Common Land, this weekend, the 29th, 30th and 31st of May 2014 at the Upstairs at the Three and Ten venue, as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival.