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Saturday, October 24, 2020

Review: *Untitled, Zest Theatre by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: *Untitled, Zest Theatre 3.0Overall Score *Untitled is a new, inventive digital piece that captures the exuberance and anxiety of being a young person in such an uncertain world, and …

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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Review: Scenes for Survival: The Longest Summer, National Theatre of Scotland by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Scenes for Survival: The Longest Summer, National Theatre of Scotland3.0StarsThose long British childhood summers, endless days of possibility and madcap energy punctuated by weak su…

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Review: Scenes for Survival, Black Scots, National Theatre of Scotland by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Scenes for Survival, Black Scots, National Theatre of Scotland 4.0Stars An extract from Phillipe Ducros, Linda McLean and Davey Anderson's 2018 production First Snow, Black Scots is …

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Monday, February 3, 2020

Review: Santi & Naz, VAULT Festival by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Santi & Naz, VAULT Festival4.0starsHeart-warming and distressing, elegant and silly, Santi & Naz is a moving story of pairs that at first glance belong to distinct, different…

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Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Review: Pictland, Katzpace by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Pictland, Katzpace3.0starsSquabbling over the identity of a society struggling to get by, arguing over which procedures should be considered legitimate and on what grounds, uncoverin…

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Saturday, December 7, 2019

Review: Cinderella, The Vaults by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Cinderella, The Vaults2.0starsChristmas is a-coming and the geese are being intensively pumped full of chemicals which means only one thing in theatreland: an unstoppable outbreak of…

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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Review: Red Palace, The Vaults by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Red Palace, The Vaults2.0starsBeing but an 'umble despot trying to scratch out a living in my modest smallholding in the hinterlands (aka anywhere beyond Zone 1) at the outskirts of …

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Thursday, November 14, 2019

Review: Yes No Black White, Camden People's Theatre by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Yes No Black White, Camden People's Theatre4.0starsYes No Black White is part of Camden People's Theatre's Handle With Care festival which interrogates that most bizarrely pejorative…

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Sunday, July 28, 2019

Review: Anything with a Pulse, Hen and Chickens Theatre by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Anything with a Pulse, Hen and Chickens Theatre 4.0stars Playful, lively and wonderfully funny, Anything with a Pulse by Eliana Ostro (who is both writer and director) depicts a tend…

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Thursday, July 4, 2019

Review: Europe, Donmar Warehouse by Aidan Bracebridge

stars5.0Overall ScoreHegel's famous quote that the "only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history" seems to ring truer every day at the moment. Despite all the previ…

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Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Acknowledging the Elephant on the Stage: Can theatre ever just be theatre? by Aidan Bracebridge

Can we watch and create theatre without any political intention? Is apoliticism an insidious tool? After watching two very different shows, Aidan Bracebridge is left wondering. A few months …

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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Review: Three Sisters, Vaudeville Theatre by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Three Sisters, Vaudeville Theatre4.0starsMaly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg's production of Three Sisters, Anton Chekhov's poignant exploration of human hearts in rebellion against…

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Saturday, May 25, 2019

Review: Beats on Pointe, Peacock Theatre by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Beats on Pointe, Peacock Theatre5.0Overall ScoreAs Beats on Pointe whirls into London, scattering its magical blend of ballet and street dance, I arrive at the Peacock Theatre excite…

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Monday, April 29, 2019

Review: Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Rose Theatre Kingston by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Rose Theatre Kingston4.0Overall ScoreThe people of war-time Cephalonia fearfully await the entrance of their Italian occupiers. After a hurried hour of fa…

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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Review: Wolfie, Theatre 503 by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Wolfie, Theatre 5033.0Overall ScoreWith its long-lost twins, its wolf-mother, its tree-chorus and its woodpecker-arbiter, you would be forgiven for thinking Wolfie is a regular fairy…

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Thursday, March 21, 2019

Review: Never Trust a Man Bun, Stockwell Playhouse by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Never Trust a Man Bun, Stockwell Playhouse 1.0Overall Score "Brush your hair, pluck your eyebrows and put on something pretty", Rachel (Natasha Grace Hutt) says to Lucy (Katherine Th…

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Saturday, March 9, 2019

Review: Medea, The Barbican by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Medea, The Barbican4.0starsSimon Stone's taut, modern adaptation of Medea pulls no punches so I'm not going to either: this is a brutally unflinching journey exposing many of the dar…

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Saturday, March 2, 2019

Review: The Importance of Being Earnest, Tara Theatre by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: The Importance of Being Earnest, Tara Theatre3.0Overall ScoreI wonder what Oscar Wilde would have thought of seeing his iconic comedy of aristocratic Victorian society, The Import…

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Review: Bring Them Home, VAULT Festival by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Bring Them Home, VAULT Festival3.0starsPart immersive theatre, part interactive board game, Treehouse Games' Bring Them Home provides an inventive, manic evening of 1970s Space Race-…

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Review: And The Rest of Me Floats, Bush Theatre by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: And The Rest of Me Floats, Bush Theatre 4.0stars is a beautiful, brave exploration of gender identity and fluidity / burns with the constellations of possibilities shining between th…

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Monday, February 18, 2019

Review: The D Word, VAULT Festival by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: The D Word, VAULT Festival5.0Overall ScoreDeftly dovetailing a deliciously droll disposition with a daringly dramatised dialogue on domestic difference and dynastic diversity, Jordan…

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Thursday, February 7, 2019

Review: The Cult of K*nzo, Camden People's Theatre by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: The Cult of K*nzo, Camden People's Theatre3.0Overall ScoreDebonair fashion icon that I am, I probably ought to say that I was previously so oblivious to Kenzo that I didn't even know…

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Thursday, January 31, 2019

Review: Leave to Remain, Lyric Hammersmith by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Leave to Remain, Lyric Hammersmith4.0starsImagine a joyful, precarious, tender love story between two young gay men in London; one a black British second-generation immigrant, the ot…

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Saturday, January 19, 2019

Review: A Modest Little Man, Bread and Roses Theatre by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: A Modest Little Man, Bread and Roses Theatre 2.0Overall Score Following Clement Attlee from his unexpectedly successful election campaign in 1945, to his creation of the welfare stat…

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Friday, January 18, 2019

Review: 24 Italian Songs and Arias / Diana Is Dead! The Yard Theatre by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: 24 Italian Songs and Arias / Diana Is Dead! The Yard Theatre2.0starsAs I approach Hackney Wick for an improbable Tuesday night double-bill of 24 Italian Songs and Arias and Diana Is …

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Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Review: Aisha, Tristan Bates Theatre by Aidan Bracebridge

Review: Aisha, Tristan Bates Theatre5.0Overall ScoreAisha is a devastatingly powerful one-woman play about what it really means to be a victim of child marriage in the UK, not as an imperson…

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