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 →
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 →
Friday, 15th September 2023 at York Theatre Royal ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ian Stroughair once more takes to the York Theatre Royal stage as alter ego Velma Celli - this time with a show celebrating “pop royalty”: God Save the Queens. Celli’s style is very much that classic brand of cabaret in which the audience is treated as... Continue Reading →
Thursday, 14th September 2023 at Park Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman *Spoilers ahead* 'Italians really love their absurdism, don't they?', the woman sitting to my left murmured to me following the cast's curtain call. Absurdism? But this is real life! Emanuele Aldrovandi's Sorry We Didn't Die at Sea certainly has flavours of works such... Continue Reading →
Saturday, 9th September 2023 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Described as “Doctor Faustus cosmically collides with Deal or No Deal”, Cosmic Collective’s Edmonds is a whacky show which marries improv with the absurd to take audiences through Noel Edmonds’ life and career. The show is written and performed by Joe Feeney, who is joined briefly... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, 6th September 2023 at York Theatre Royal. Les Enfants Terribles’ take on Sophie Anderson’s young adult novel, The House with Chicken Legs, is a quirky, heartfelt and visually rich show. Co-directors James Seager and Oliver Lansley (who also adapted the story for the stage) deliver heart and humour in a fine balance, allowing the... Continue Reading →
Monday, 4th September 2023 at Soho Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman A musician ensemble sparkles in crystal accessories and all-white outfits: a nod, perhaps to David Byrne's all-metallic grey ensemble in American Utopia? Or maybe, it's a nod to the world of Xanadu... Salty Brine (Bigmouth Strikes Again) has many creative "nods" in what... Continue Reading →
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