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...
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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Get ready for an unforgettable acoustic experience with Büyük Ev Ablukada, the groundbreaking band that has redefined Turkey’s alternative music scene. Since 2010, Büyük Ev Ablukada’s acoustic concerts have been a beloved tradition. With their latest album Defansif Dizayn, this...
Sevgili Arsz Ölüm Dirmit - Dear Shameless Death Dirmit “The unfulfilled dreams shattered the lives of the people I grew up among... I struggled endlessly to adapt to the city. I was bruised all over. While fighting, I drifted away from the people I grew up with. But I resisted —...
N’olcak Bu Yusuf Umut’un Hali? - What Will Become Of Yusuf Umut? “I’m Yusuf Umut. People usually ask which one I actually use — Yusuf or Umut? I tell them I don’t really like either of them, so I use both. My grandfather insisted on Yusuf: ‘a prophet’s name, may it bring...
Two young artists — actors, writers, directors. They are everything at once. They have almost grown up together; they are bonded, dependent, inseparable. They are life partners and creative partners. What is real and what is fiction becomes blurred. One of them creates from...
Oh yes it is — the Church Street Elders are back! Oh no it isn’t — the same old Cinderella you know! Originally written by Janet Locke, an 89-year-old member of the Church Street Elders Drama Group, this brand-new version of Cinderella has been joyfully reimagined through...
In Soviet Moscow, wearing a yellow tie is an act of rebellion. Dancing to jazz could cost you everything. This is the story of the stilyagi — young people who chose colour over conformity, music over safety, and love over ideology. “We wanted to live like Americans, but we...
Fringe Revolution: Our inaugural conference on the present and future of Fringe Theatre Saturday 29 November 10:10 am - 4:30 pm Is Fringe Theatre in trouble? With The Stage reporting on the “uphill struggles” in Edinburgh over the summer, uncertainty around the future of ACE...
New writing, premiering at The Cockpit. It’s 6:47 pm. An actress sits down to make a self-tape. It might be her last. In a city of lost and lonely people, how do we find our way without losing who we are? A woman, A camera, One last chance. A story you won’t forget. Written by...
Continuity, by David Sear Directed by Rosina Piovani What happens when your life is abruptly changed by a tragic accident? One that ruins that life completely? And if a chance came along to use a revolutionary new cure, would you take it? Do you want to live forever? (Terms &...
Street Songs: France Cafe Bakery Written and directed by: Mohammad Rahmanian Produced by: Mehromah Art Production Line Producer: Laleh Mousavi This theatre production is the outcome of a workshop led by Mr. Mohammad Rahmanian in London, and it explores the stories of Iranian...
