In JG Ballard’s novel, Concrete Island, an architect is left stranded after a car accident in an area of overgrown wasteland in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:05PMAnna May Wong was one of a kind. Widely considered Hollywood’s first Chinese-American movie star, she had a prolific career and starred
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:09AMLimbik Theatre’s adaptation of George Saunders’ short story, The Semplica Girl Diaries, has a nightmarish premise. Set in a near future, the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMEndangered rhinos: a mother and a daughter duo have created this show about a species in peril. The post Edinburgh fringe review: Unconditional by ThisEgg appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 03:45AMAs a classical singer, one’s agency is limited. Immersed in the canon of Western music, one’s voice is trained and disciplined, taught
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:08AMFor Layla, who is mixed-race and soon to be married to a white man, there’s no worry about whether to take his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMYou can always rely on Summerhall’s Big in Belgium programme to throw up some curiosities. Another One begins with two people in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMFlight is a 'perfectly programmed high-art theme park ride.' The post Edinburgh Review: Flight at Summerhall appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 08:15AMDrumming requires discipline – years of precision drilling, until playing becomes second nature, muscle memory. It’s oddly fitting, then, that for a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMWhat links an astronaut in 2096, two girls in year 10, and a T-Rex in the Cretaceous period? In Holly and Ted’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:07PMNouveau Riche’s Queens of Sheba – one of the winners of New Diorama and Underbelly’s Untapped Award – is strikingly unadorned. Four
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:16AMIf a comedy about four women on a day out at the races who bet exclusively on horses named after Tony Christie
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:42AMWeeks before work begins redeveloping it into a boutique hotel, the old Coventry Evening Telegraph building, closed since 2012, has its swan
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:39AMTransforming the backstage area of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre into a lively festival hub and the main stage into a communal dining
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:52AMWoyzeck, Georg Büchner’s fragmented, unfinished play about a downtrodden soldier who murders his partner isn’t an immediately obvious choice for a mass
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:41AMThis spring, the RSC’s biannual Mischief Festival of new work features two true stories exploring human rights abuses and state corruption. Written
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMThe Birmingham Hippodrome’s first in-house production – a collaboration with Open Theatre Company and inventive theatre-makers Metro-Boulot-Dodo – sees a cast of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:10AMThe meaning of the title of Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s new play is threefold – Elephant is the pet name of the play’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMIn this first commission from the Rural Touring Dance Initiative, Ben Wright – previously a principal for Matthew Bourne – choreographs and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34AMIn 1937, some 300,000 Chinese civilians were raped, tortured and murdered by Japanese soldiers in the city of Nanking. Christopher Chen’s new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMComedy-theatre company New Old Friends follow last year’s Crimes Against Christmas with a new festive caper for the Lichfield Garrick, Crimes on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:27AM“They laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a jester. Well, they’re not laughing now,” quips Sean Dodd’s clown.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:12AMWith Goats playing at the Royal Court, part of me optimistically hoped to see 101 real dogs in the Birmingham Rep’s adaptation
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMRichard Bean’s 2011 comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, with its blend of commedia dell’arte and British farce, was a hit when it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMBen Kulchivit discovers the grotesque, the perverse, and the transcendental at Birmingham's annual festival of live art. The post Fierce Festival appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:32AMA six-day celebration of live art opens in Birmingham on Monday. Ben Kulvichit talks to Fierce Festival’s new artistic director about its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMI Knew You is Steven Camden’s (otherwise known as spoken word artist Polarbear) second play, it’s an agreeable but curiously slight piece
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMThe New England farm that provides the setting for Eugene O’Neill’s 1924 tragedy plays a large part in precipitating the play’s events.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMGemma Brockis and Wendy Hubbard’s devised show, Kingdom Come – programmed as part of the Mischief Festival – is set before, during
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:14AMDog isn’t so much man’s best friend as his most cruelly conditioned subordinate in Helena Kaut-Howson’s adaptation of Georgi Vladimov’s novel, Faithful
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMNever work with animals or children, the saying goes. Preston-based collective Tin Can People shows a healthy disregard for showbiz wisdom with
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