Sunday 11th August 2019 at the Etcetera Theatre, Camden. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ At every performance of Improdyssey, the audience dictate (to an extent) the action they see. Restrictions apply as the company specifies that the tale must be set in the medieval period with the healthy option of fantastical content - from there, the show sets sail... Continue Reading →
Friday 9th August 2019 at the Etcetera Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️ Ah, the world of work - what could be more ripe for a dressing down, a cheeky chinwag or a show intelligently reassuring us that our rates of unhappiness have little to do with things we actually have power over? In this show Mel Byron... Continue Reading →
Friday 9th August 2019 at the Etcetera Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Matthew Cleverly gives an extraordinarily energised performance in Regretxit, a show in which he is both sole writer and performer. Barely stopping for breath in the 50 minutes he takes to the stage, this is a whirlwind of action telling a loose narrative at lightning... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 7th August 2019 at The Tristan Bates Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bickering and debates are almost always at root about semantics. People take issue with the minutiae and from there the volcanoes either remain dormant or erupt. Couples all over the world are made up of opposites. Those with brains equally adept with the arts... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 7th August 2019 at The Water Rats, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ When you are ‘othered’ at your most vulnerable, why not start your own ‘army’ made up of those renouncing the norm by perceived choice? Our eponymous Angel is a compelling force who interrupts daily lives, asks cryptic questions and offers a new way of living.... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 7th August 2019 at the Etcetera Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ You know the drill: someone spews some hateful drivel from behind their keyboard/ webcam/presidential podium; there’s uproar and controversy; there’s inaction. So what happens when you’ve had enough of this cycle of madness and you have a willing bestie to take things into your own... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 7th August 2019 at the Etcetera Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Three women, all grieving, all revealed to be living with complicated feelings and connections to the stories of the departed. In Marina Jenkyns’ thirty minute play, we are given a well observed and well performed study of loss. Sea Changes is very well written, though... Continue Reading →
Lights Down Productions join forces with Starbound Theatre to bring Zoë Guzy- Sprague’s THE NET to the Camden Fringe this August. Making the personal political and the political thoughtful, the creatives hope to have audiences engaged, entertained and perhaps even enraged. The Net plays the Tristan Bates Theatre 13 - 17 August (tickets here) so... Continue Reading →
Burnt Orange Theatre Company are heading to the Camden Fringe with Fast, a political piece which centres on the voices of the young and the passionate. The show plays at the Etcetera Theatre 10-11 (tickets here) August so I caught up with artistic directors Rosie and Ella to talk all things Fast... To begin, tell... Continue Reading →
Thursday 1st August 2019 at the Camden People’s Theatre. ⭐️ Lucas Bailey plays our homeless lead Fred. The show, directed by Conor Kennedy, promises us that ‘despite his lonely lifestyle he is guaranteed to make you smile.’ It’s true that Bailey makes us smile now and again with his child-like eyes searching for our approval... Continue Reading →
