Saturday, 17th February 2024 at Leeds Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This latest show from Imitating the Dog offers a key departure from the company’s usual approach: having no live cameras on stage. It does however maintain a characteristic cinematic quality in a bold and intriguing production. Billed as “inspired by” Mary Shelley’s brilliant novel, this take from... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 6th February 2024 at Theatre @41 Monkgate, York. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Angie Millard directs this production of Alexander Zeldin’s 2014 drama with a keen focus on the sympathetic elements of Zeldin’s characters. Beyond Caring is a pointed, well-observed glimpse at an undervalued workforce, and The York Actor’s Collective do well to stage such a static piece... Continue Reading →
Friday, 2nd February 2024 at York Theatre Royal ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cronus and Rhea. Aphrodite. Zeus and Hera. Persephone. Dionysus. Eurydice and Orpheus. Aside from the wonderful poetry of the names, the stories of the Greek gods are an assortment of the unexpected, the macabre and the downright bizarre. Orpheus Dismembered takes audiences on a whistle stop... Continue Reading →
Friday, 6th October 2023 at Leeds Playhouse (Courtyard Theatre). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If ever there was a “right time” to have I, Daniel Blake on stage, surely it’s now. Ken Loach’s 2016 film, with screenplay by Paul Laverty and on which this stage adaptation from Dave Johns is based, really rustled feathers, and rightly so. With its... Continue Reading →
Thursday, 5th October 2023 at Southwark Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman Note: spoilers ahead… Lazarus Theatre Company has been in the game for quite some time, and while this is the first time they've made it onto my radar, I certainly am happy to have finally made their acquaintance. Their latest production, Thomas Middleton and... Continue Reading →
September 2023 “A Play For The Living In A Time of Extinction” is described as “a bold experiment in eco theatre-making” which sees the performance powered by bicycles generating electricity. The show is set to arrive at York Theatre Royal later this month (27-30 September) and here, Director Mingyu Lin chats to Steve Pratt about... Continue Reading →
Thursday 3rd August 2023 at the King's Head Theatre, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Charlotte Dawes Written by Martin Lewton and directed by Andrew McKinnon, Scream Queer Murder is a comedy providing an intriguing view of the changes in identity and sexuality stereotypes in the 1950s and today, through the lens of an Agatha Christie style novel.... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 25th July 2023 at Arcola Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Charlotte Dawes As society grapples with the complexities of maintaining community roots during redevelopment, Union offers a compelling perspective of the gentrification happening around us in London. Directed by Wiebke Green, Union tackles this multi-faceted process through Saskia, played by Dominique Tipper, a property developer... Continue Reading →
July 2023 Writer and Director Bryan Oliver is set to bring new work “Scavengers” to the Camden Fringe in August. Telling the tale of a post- apocalyptic world in which a group of scavengers battle to survive in overwhelming circumstances, the show will play at the Etcetera Theatre from the 16th - 20th August. Here,... Continue Reading →
July 2023 This August, Ukrainian writer-performer Valery Reva is bringing “in|Secure” to The Lion and Unicorn Theatre (18-19 August). This new one-woman show explores the theme of guilt in relation to the War in Ukraine, with Valery taking stories directly from wartime experiences of friends. The play offers “an unsanitised version of an ongoing, brutal... Continue Reading →
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