August 2023 A cracking story that was born to run… The House with Chicken Legs is heading for both York Theatre Royal (6-9 September) and Leeds Playhouse (13-16 September) this month. Here, author Sophie Anderson chats to Jo Haywood about this magical stage adaptation. For a long time, bestselling children’s author Sophie Anderson didn’t think... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, 23rd August at Camden People’s Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Joe Marshall VESSEL, the latest output of Oxford-based company ‘Dawn Productions’, rounded up its three-week national tour in Camden last week to a near sold-out audience at the Camden People’s Theatre. It’s an ambitious production, with a clear point of view in driving wider awareness... Continue Reading →
August 2023 Jan Noble, poet, performer and former member of the punk band Monkey Island, has a new show currently playing at the Hope Theatre (until August 26th). Described as “a mini verse-drama, a tale of inner and outer journeys in explicit homage to Dante’s Divine Comedy”, “Body 115” promises to be a fascinating sixty... Continue Reading →
Friday, 18th August 2023 at Southwark Playhouse, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman What you might expect from a piece like Dumbledore is So Gay is something that skirts the very edge of copyright infringement laws. I was thinking Harry Potter, but taking place in some imaginary, queer fantasia. I was thinking it would be pure... Continue Reading →
Thursday, 17th August 2023 at Soho Theatre, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman The Arc: A Trilogy of New Jewish Plays, in the words of character Lynda (Caroline Gruber), just 'sounds familiar'. It's almost suspiciously too close to a play I would expect to encounter at a Saturday matinee at the Signature Theatre in New York... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 15th August 2023 at Park Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman The Garden of Words has been in development for nine years, and it shows. The piece is a clever collection of poetic textures that convey the realities of communal sorrow in a big city. This flavour of sorrow, though, is not weighty; it's... Continue Reading →
August 2023 Promising an hour of stand-up featuring songs and niche observational humour, “Comedian pals and cheerful Leicester gals” Nayonica Ghosh and Melina Fiol are bringing their show “Leicester Foxes” to the Camden Fringe this month. Melina sold out her first split bill at last year’s Women in Comedy Festival and was handpicked by Leicester... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 8th August 2023 at Camden People’s Theatre. ⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman 'I like writing about sex.' If I had to pick one, unifying, standout line, this one is undoubtedly a keeper. It is both the crux of, and confusion within, Alex Millington's interactive, metatheatrical two-hander in which he proceeds to re-create a previous encounter... Continue Reading →
Psychonaut Theatre are an international multidisciplinary performance collective with an experimental style and a new show heading to the stage. Described as “a futuristic, witty and radical exploration of collective responsibility”, “The W.I.G of Life: A Conference” will play at Camden People’s Theatre from 29th-30th August, and at the Etcetera Theatre from 7th-8th September thereafter.... Continue Reading →
August 2023 What happens when in the space of one year, your political parody videos take you viral (including a parody Liz Truss campaign video that actually gained more views than the original), you get to the semi-final of Britain’s Got Talent as part of a trio, and then see it all disappear without onward... Continue Reading →
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