Thursday, October 16, 2014
Hackney Downs Studio: Laura Lomas' Bird delicately unpicks the provocative issue of child sexual exploitation. In form, it slightly echoes Philip Ridley's Dark Vanilla Jungle, but …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:32AMWednesday, October 15, 2014
After a brief hiatus, Honour Bayes is back with Fringe Focus. Every week she will try to navigate the wild world of the fringe, picking the best, most interesting or downright unusual things…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMTuesday, October 7, 2014
Park Theatre, London: Damien Tracey's Warde Street begins with a knotty contemporary question - how would the public react to a trial that put the word a victim of the 7/7 London bombin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMMonday, September 29, 2014
Secret location, London: Fifth Column sees immersive theatre company CoLab utilise cutting edge technology - augmented reality, near field communication and geocaching no less - to turn us a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMPark Theatre, London: David Hare's dense dialogical tracts wrestle with big ideas in static plays; they're worthy and wordy but meaty too, here throwing up complicated provocations…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMMonday, September 22, 2014
Hope Theatre, London: This, Joe Orton's first play, looks at the tedium of marriage and everyday life - but it's not all doom and gloom; Fred and Madge is a riotous satire. From it…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:21PMMonday, September 15, 2014
Greenwich Theatre, London: Creating work that is genuinely scary on stage is always tricky, but this production of two of Daphne Du Maurier's short stories engenders chills of disquiet …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:44AMFriday, August 8, 2014
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is a bubble. Normal work schedules go out the window for artists, critics, audience members and Edinburgh residents, while perspectives become grossly skewed, n…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:24AMWednesday, July 30, 2014
Arcola Theatre, London: Based on a short story by Baghdad-born Hassan Blasim, this play draws our attention to the daily devastation suffered by Iraqis post Saddam Hussain. Razaq tries to bo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:02PMThursday, July 24, 2014
Arcola Tent, London: Tom Basden's Holes takes the plot of TV's Lost and splices it with Lord of the Flies: the writer, a BBC favourite, strands three conference organisers and a te…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMTuesday, July 22, 2014
Henham Park, Southwold, Suffolk : Latitude's performance lineup is always richly eclectic and this year more than matched the dramatically varied skies - alternating between dazzling su…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:17AMMonday, July 14, 2014
Southwark Playhouse, London: Plays in which famous characters meet one another always go one of two ways: you either feel satisfied (Terry Johnson's Hysteria, for example) or disappoint…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMMonday, July 7, 2014
King's Head, London: About Miss Julie sees Jonathan Sidgwick move the action of Strindberg's original 35 years forward to the roaring 20s. This decade proves an electric backdrop for th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:13PMTuesday, July 1, 2014
Hampstead Downstairs Theatre, London: Martyn Hesford's witty and wounding The Glass Supper is a cutting exploration of salvation and hypocrisy. Abbey Wright's rich production (set …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMWednesday, June 25, 2014
I want to write about The Anxiety Festival but am anxious I’m doing it too late. It’s been on for the whole of June and is now in the last week – what’s the point…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMFriday, June 20, 2014
Finborough Theatre, London: Here is a sort of marriage between Sumerian mythology and a family saga you might find in EastEnders or, because it's also very funny, Modern Family. It'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMMonday, June 16, 2014
Southwark Playhouse, London: After scoring a hit with his first play Bound, Jesse Briton's second is not short on ambition. Enduring Song sees Briton's company, Bear Trap Theatre, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMLondon Wonderground, London: "Forgive all those who call us strippers," Miss Tempest Rose drawls with a wink. After some sassy audience patter, she's beginning House of Burles…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AMThursday, June 12, 2014
Last week the new Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport, Sajid Javid called for more accessibility in the arts. It was a pretty stonking speech and it got me thinking practically ab…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:13PMFriday, June 6, 2014
Udderbelly, London: Australian acrobats Gravity and Other Myths tumble about the stage in the sort of khaki shorts and pastel tops we're used to seeing in GAP adverts. As they test thei…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMMonday, June 2, 2014
Riverside Studios, London: It's rare that Ophelia is also the fight director in a production of Hamlet but then this is no ordinary version. <a href="http://www.hiraethartisticp…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:33PMThursday, May 29, 2014
I love it when small theatres dream big and I love it even more when their ambition is matched by success. So I couldn’t be happier for the organisers of Incoming Festival which stormed to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:19AMFriday, May 16, 2014
Birmingham Repertory Theatre: Rachel De-Lahay's Circles explores cycles of violence in a play that lands a number of hefty emotional punches. It's affecting at first and then feels…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:23PMWednesday, May 14, 2014
Arcola Theatre, London: Simon Dormandy brings a determinedly contemporary Waiting for Godot to the Arcola - baseball caps replace bowlers and a hot young double act has been drafted in.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AM‘How long is it?’. This is the first question friends ask when I invite them to see a show with me. It’s an important issue because the answer often effects whether they co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMTuesday, May 6, 2014
Arcola Theatre, London: Sudha Bhuchar's new verbatim play is an even-handed look at a tug-of-love scandal that dominated tabloids in 2006. Ny Name is... examines a child's decision…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:26PMTheatre 503, London: The first thing to say about A Handful of Stars, starring Boyzone's Keith Duffy, is that Duffy's not duff. He's good in fact, along with the rest of Paul …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:22PMFriday, May 2, 2014
Shakespeare's Globe, London: Lucy Bailey's spectacular 2006 production of Titus Andronicus makes a glorious return to the Globe; much as its eponymous General does to Rome. But unlike t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMThursday, May 1, 2014
Southwark Playhouse, London: It's fitting that this revival of Dennis Kelly's Debris comes around Easter, as this dark two-hander sets about to repurpose the Christ story. A brothe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMFriday, April 25, 2014
Lion and Unicorn, London: Writer Peter Oswald comes with an impressive CV; his plays have been performed at the Globe and the National Theatre, and Phyllida Lloyd - who directed his Mary Stu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:33PMLook across the fringe and it’s raining theatrical dynasties; Redgrave, Fox, Rigg – if you want to see the creme de la creme of genetic theatrical talent for half the price of a West…
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