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...
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Those worrying that Tilda Swinton — the patron saint of Sunday afternoon arthouse movies and performance art best experienced through reviews — has gone mainstream should make themselves a cup of chamomile tea and relax. There are likely very few famous actors (never mind Oscar winners) queuing …
“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?…
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Gigue Production is thrilled to present Herkes Kocama Benziyor at The Cockpit, London, on November 2, 2025! Pnar Güntürkün ’s critically acclaimed solo performance won the 22nd Direkleraras Audience Awards for Best Solo Performance , and she was awarded Best Actress at the 24th...
Hello there...are you sitting comfortably? Even with the rise of the right wing throughout Europe? Come see Flitsmeister, because there's no time like the present to ask these questions! Flitsmeister, is a 14+ show for people who are safe in their own bubble. It’s an explosive...
"It's those bloody nut jobs you watch...!" THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT FLAT EARTH is a brand-new, original musical comedy that blends conspiracy and catchy tunes to tell the story of a woman who believes Earth is flat... and now wants to prove it. Join Sharon, best friend Debs and...
*Glitz* *Glamour* *High Fashion* Shades, a musical play, is a story about hidden truths, shattered images, and mastering the art of illusion. It centers around a young woman named Sheree Filmore, and her quest to become a supermodel. She has it all: the look, the style . . . and...
Music:Rania Chrysostomou Words: Caroline Coetzee Hidden Star is a lyrical, intimate character study of Annie Walker, a long-forgotten late 19th century astronomer. The work crosses the boundaries of arts, sciences and social history, using contemporary words and music to create...
Music: Kevin Rodgers Would you kill one man to save a billion others? Gavrilo K. believes he did, but for the murder of his country’s President he will now be tried and punished. Doctor Sunderland, the State’s chief psychiatrist, must determine his sanity, but what she discovers...
Performed by: Ololyga Bitter Visions: By Order of Hildegard is an R&D work inspired by Hildegard von Bingen’s 12th-century morality play Ordo Virtutum. This reimagining invites audiences into an immersive, meditative experience which fuses medieval plainchant with ambient...
Music: Robert Fokkens Book: Mehdi Razi & Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh Libretto: Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh “All the hearts of the people are my identity, So take away my passport!” Mahmoud Darwish The Flying Shadow is a reclamation. A weaving of myth, memory, and biography...
Music: Ed Lambert Words: Norman Welch, Walter Hall, Verbatim A satirical dive into the espousal of apocalyptic prophesies in the U.S.A. and their chilling influence on the current situation in Gaza. ***** The Pastor predicts the End Times while the Knights prepare their swords...
Music: Ben Hoppe Words: Edie Bailey As the Crows Fly is a one-act opera that explores death and decomposition from the perspective of nature’s most ominous bird; the crow. Combining the literary worlds of Shakespeare and Ted Hughes with the sounds of Stravinsky, Weill and...
