Tuesday, 3rd October 2023 at Theatre503, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman Caution: a few spoilers ahead… These Demons is one of those few plays I had genuine excitement and anticipation about. I can't believe I'm even writing these words, but it isn't that often that I get to see the work of a Jewish playwright... Continue Reading →
October 2023 The award-winning Box Tale Soup Theatre Company are known for their track record of excellent stage work and for “seamlessly blending multiple disciplines, including puppetry, mask, physical theatre and all original music”. Their latest piece, “Casting the Runes”, enjoyed impressive success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe over the summer and is now touring.... Continue Reading →
Friday, 29th September 2023 at the Wesley Centre, Harrogate (for Harrogate Theatre) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Smoking Apples Theatre’s Kinder is is beautiful show. Its beauty lies in the visual richness of the puppetry and inventive use of set throughout, but also in the quiet strength of Babi, whose story we see in a cross-section of childhood and... Continue Reading →
Thursday 28th September 2023 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ In A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction, writer Miranda Rose Hall offers something between an impassioned academic lecture (with a few choice expletives thrown in for good measure) and a confessional solo show. It packs in an awful lot of information and... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, 27th September 2023 at Arcola Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman The Brief Life & Mysterious Death of Boris III, King of Bulgaria made a splash at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, so I was eager to see the London transfer of this comical, self-aware narrative about Boris III, the penultimate King of Bulgaria. During World... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, 27th September 2023 at Theatre @41 Monkgate, York. ⭐️⭐️ In this particular “whodunnit” from the great Agatha Christie, ten strangers find themselves thrown together (by invitation) at a rural estate on an island. Each has done wrong and each must pay a price. Gradually, they begin to drop like flies and in line with... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 26th September 2023 at Shoreditch Town Hall ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman We’re brought into what strikes me as an evidence room: boxes on boxes stacked atop metal shelves that are posed in neat little rows and poorly lit conditions. What a container for a verbatim theatre piece. Woodhill, however, is not entirely verbatim. That... Continue Reading →
Monday, 25th September, 2023 at the Bread and Roses Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman Rating: 3 Stars Note: some spoilers ahead. Zuzana Spacirova has created a whirlwind of a one-woman show in which we find Diana- a 20-something Lonely Londoner with a penchant for making friends out of inanimate, technological objects- and struggling to... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 19th September 2023 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Murder in the Dark is a trippy thriller from writer Torben Betts that takes its own sweet time to lay foundations before unleashing a pretty gripping final segment. What really impresses though, somewhat surprisingly, is how well this show courts comedy. Not just in the sense... Continue Reading →
September 2023 ‘I want people to get angry’ The stage adaptation of “I, Daniel Blake”, directed by Mark Calvert and adapted from the award-winning film by Dave Johns, will soon arrive at Leeds Playhouse (3-7 October) as part of a national tour. Here, Johns and actors Bryony Corrigan and Kema Sikazwe talk to Natasha Tripney... Continue Reading →
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