It’s Les Mis if you squint. A musical based on turbulent French history, doomed love, and flags brandished like a crusaders’ Warhammers. Except this is not the longest running musical in West End history. This is its weird cousin Martin Guerre.…
Though the originating Disney team doesn’t seem to be involved, the vibe of the film is perfectly maintained. Bryan Louiselle takes over the musical aspect, adapting and producing the soundtrack as well as writing new songs. David Simpatico writes the book: his script can be a bit cheesy and strai…
Coming-of-age plays are not new, but they vary hugely in quality and impact. Danny Lee Wynter's new work, Ilford Boy is a witty, sensitive and beautifully performed piece of theatre that will warm your soul and break your heart…
The Orange Tree's Tom Littler is not afraid of variety. After staging a delightful and clever version of Love's Labour's Lost and Much Ado About Nothing, set in the grounds of a Richmond school, he has turned to T.S. Eliot’s 1936 verse drama, Murder In The Cathedral, set in the church opposite …
The idea that “art is not a mirror but a hammer” has been attributed to Bertolt Brecht, deployed by Leon Trotsky and could serve as the epitaph for Sarah Kane’s repertoire, not least her final work.…
Whether intentionally or not, London’s opera houses have leaned hard into the Halloween season with an unspoken theme of “go bleak or go home”. Over in Covent Garden, there’s a revival of Philip Venables’s 4.48 Psychosis (adapted from Sarah Kane’s final play, completed shortly before she…
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night arrives at the Sheffield Crucible in a production directed by Jamie Glover that offers plenty to enjoy. Physical comedy, inventive lighting and live music give this interpretation considerable theatrical character, even if not every creative choice reaches its full po…
Connor Delves delivers a remarkable one man show about a remarkable man…
Cie Omar Rajeh, the Lebanese choreographer and cultural architect has lost a lot - in basic terms his home and personal/professional life in Beirut. Rajeh is a big player in the Arab dance world having founded Maqamat in 2002, a “pioneering contemporary dance organisation”. Due to political unre…
'...the standout of the piece is the writing itself. Daye has a gift for calling out performative activism in a way that doesn’t feel accusatory... Our Ghost Drinks Matcha explores the grey area, the place where there isn’t a ‘happy ending’...'…
It’s Christmas Eve in Bluebell Wood, and excitement is in the air. Gerda, the littlest mouse, is hosting a cosy sleepover with her best friend Kai — and you’re invited. But something’s not quite right… A sudden chill sweeps through the trees. The mysterious Snow Queen has cast...
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