Music: Alla Sirenko Libretto & Words: Olha Shvets A Ukrainian composer responding to the powerful and urgent story of Azovstal. A presentation of the new opera Azovstal with some music highlights in a concert form, followed by a talk with the composer and librettist and a Q&A...
Broken Ivy Music: Florence Lloyd Libretto: Vivian Bayliss Fence Off Music: Ruben Doda Libretto: Rebekah King Broken Ivy & Fence Off are a pair of chamber operas created by emerging composers from the Royal Academy of Music. The evening brings two worlds onto one stage: a vivid...
The Rude Mechanicals have been asked to perform a play at the Duke's wedding. Trouble is, they've forgotten to write it! Can you help??? Do you remember Pyramus & Thisbe? The romantic tragedy that Bottom & The Rude Mechanicals were asked to perform for the Duke in A MIDSUMMER...
Sing4 Nok6, and other broken things Music: Ng Kwun Ho / Jerry Fryderyk Libretto: Courtney Cousins Meet The Philips Music: Alessandro Mackinnon-Botti Libretto: Wilkie Robson Sing4 Nok6, and other broken things and Meet The Philips are a pair of chamber operas created by emerging...
Notated music and performance: CN Lester Electronic music and soundscapes: IL Libretto, direction, spoken word performance: Jamie Hale This 60 minute hybrid work strips Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to its core question: is it right to create new life in a fractured and suffering...
RE:ENCHANT - Poetic Experiments For A New World Live literature every third Sunday Please be aware that this month, Re-enchant will be up in Studio 1. This is accessible via a spiral staircase only. There are also less seats, so make sure you grab a ticket. Martina Evans will be...
Professor Nathan Zangari is fading away. Once voted the sexiest professor on BBC2’s Open University, his highly celebrated archeo-linguistics paper on “Graffiti, Women and the Walls of Pompeii” is now but a distant memory. Now, he can’t sleep, he can’t get published, and… he...
Peter & the Wolf is a magical new production of Sergei Prokofiev’s much-loved musical masterpiece, featuring live music and dance. Created especially for 2-5 year olds and their grown-ups, this enchanting show introduces little ones to orchestral instruments, where each sound...
MIRRORS BY Ada Tsesmeli Edwards Twice awarded by the Cultural Centre of Northern Greece for Playwright & Direction About the performance There comes a moment in life when each of us must look into the mirror and face our own reflection. But how ready are we to truly confront...
One student has disappeared. Nobody knows why. Everyone has an opinion. When a classmate is removed from school under suspicion of radicalisation, a group of teenagers are left alone to make sense of what has happened. As rumours spread and tensions rise, friendships are tested...
This October, Geoids Musical Theatre presents its latest musical comedy, The Addams Family. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. She confides in her father and begs him not...
The Rude Mechanicals have been asked to perform a play at the Duke's wedding. Trouble is, they've forgotten to write it! Can you help??? Do you remember Pyramus & Thisbe? The romantic tragedy that Bottom & The Rude Mechanicals were asked to perform for the Duke in A MIDSUMMER...
The Rude Mechanicals have been asked to perform a play at the Duke's wedding. Trouble is, they've forgotten to write it! Can you help??? Do you remember Pyramus & Thisbe? The romantic tragedy that Bottom & The Rude Mechanicals were asked to perform for the Duke in A MIDSUMMER...
“It is difficult composing endings. Beethoven and Wagner could do it. Only great composers can do it. I can do it too.” It wasn’t just Richard Strauss’s death-embracing 'Four Last Songs' which fit this theme in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s final Prom of the season, as Franz Schube…
New play that veers off in an unfortunate direction and loses much of its punch as a consequence…
At first glance, Night City appears like your classic boy meets girl – specifically, rideshare driver meets waitress, and takes her to see the dinosaurs at Crystal Palace in the morning light. What emerges from these foundations, however, is an unflinching love letter to London, and a candid illus…
A visually compelling Don Giovanni from Royal Ballet & Opera, with a superb set by Es Devlin and memorable star turn by Aigul Akhmetshina as Donna Elvira.…
What did our critic think of MERE MORTALS at Sadler's Wells?…
What did our critic think of INTERVIEW: 'IT MAKES ME FEEL LUCKY TO JUST BE HERE,' THE WEST END CAST OF INTO THE WOODS at Noël Coward Theatre?…
Adapting classical theatre for a new audience is an exciting task and Darren Raymond has relocated Molière’s farce to a Nigerian-Jamaican family living in England. We are all preparing for Adanna and Sinclair’s impending nuptials, with relatives from both sides gathering at her childhood home. …
Presented as part of a rep season, Flywheel's take on the Chekhov classic works well enough to honour its source…
What did our critic think of PREVIEW: INTO THE WOODS, LAUNCH EVENT at Noël Coward Theatre?…
The climate crisis abuses us of the notion that we’re invincible, and ultimately forces us to reckon with exactly how much time we have left on Earth. On a much smaller scale, the same can be said of getting older.…
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A rural town. A dark summoning. A hunger that destroys all. Can you survive the Dunwich Horror? Performed in near total darkness, The Dunwich Horror: An Opera is a soundscape of life in an isolated village being terrorized by a force it doesn’t understand. With flute, theremin...
Orpheus and Eurydice is a contemporary chamber opera and dark comedy inspired by the Greek myth. Twenty years after descending into the underworld, Orpheus has forgotten why he is there. He and Eurydice live inside in their grave, as if it were a small apartment: they wake up...
Desperate times for Mr Polly! He’s stuck in a marriage with his cousin and dragged down by their failing shop. He detests them both. How did he let his life get so intolerable? Was it his failure to make his own choices? His escapism and wanderlust? Or, inspired by the books he...
Performers: Caitlin Redding, voice; Joan Cantallops, piano Discover the magic of Catalunya through a triptych of fairytales! Come wander misty mountain ranges, fight prickly dragons (or are they simply cactus...?), and watch magical dragonflies take flight as we explore stories...
Join the team behind the independent investigative news outlet Byline Times for an entertaining evening of challenging discussion to help us understand the unprecedented times we are living in – and why they are happening – with those with an inside track.
Peter Marinker, known for his extensive work on BBC Radio, his many audiobook recordings, and his long association with Samuel Beckett’s publisher John Calder, performs Krapp’s Last Tape . At 84 and recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Marinker brings decades of experience...
Six friends. Three secrets. One yearning hope. We enter a tangled web of love, loyalty, shame, and survival, as six women discover their world isn’t what it seems. Beneath the surface of six “ordinary” lives lie stories of reproductive health struggles, sexual violence, and...
In Her Defence, an original British musical comedy written by Harrison Cranfield, will make its debut at Camden Fringe this August. Set against the vibrant backdrop of 1987, the production follows Donna, a fiery single mother whose life is turned upside down when she discovers...
"Once upon a time, there was a forest, where the sun and the wind and the people ran through the trees with free abandon. Welcome to Motopia!" A new piece of writing, 'Motopia' is a musical choose-your-own adventure play where the choices of the protagonist are placed in the...
Six years after a sold out run in the then ‘Tristan Bates Theatre’, Lee Lomas is bringing back his 5 star play Sunrise for the Blind. If the play was relevant in 2019 it’s perhaps even more relevant now with the rise of right wing politics, major push backs against immigration...
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