Wednesday, August 8, 2018
The fourth instalment of Birmingham Stage Company’s long running sketch show based on the delightfully nasty children’s franchise, Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain
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Based on Dick King-Smith’s beloved children’s book, the story of bright, polite and ambitious piglet Babe, the Sheep-Pig, is given a creaky
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Weaving five starkly different stories into the text of Oscar Wilde’s haunting ballad, Reading Gaol is an ambitious but often unfocused exploration
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Shot, strangled, bludgeoned, and buried under a barn in men’s clothes, Maria Marten’s murder was one of the 19th century’s most infamous.
Linked From The Stage Registration at 11:05AMExploring the echoingly empty gulfs between intimacy and isolation, between yearning for truth and the need to keep some secrets unspoken, Charlotte
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Balancing warmth, wit, and a large dose of the ridiculous, Guildford Shakespeare Company’s Love’s Labour’s Lost manages to be both moving and
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Quietly horrifying and laced with bitterly black comedy, Fat Jewels is a moody, miserable study of psychosexual abuse. Set in one room
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Flawed, stalling, but occasionally extraordinary, At Home in Gaza and London is an ambitious multimedia piece combining simultaneous performances in the UK
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There’s a real sense of dynamism built into this year’s Greenwich and Docklands International Festival programme, which spreads its line-up of eclectic
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In a secluded copse of trees, Guildford Shakespeare Company have created a miniature Sherwood Forest, decorated with wanted posters and draped with
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Inspired by recent high-profile bullying cases, The Little Pony revolves around 10 year old Timmy, whose talismanic attachment to a pink backpack
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After a writing career spanning 50 years, celebrated playwright David Edgar makes his professional debut as a performer in a measured and
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Ironically for a play about unrealised potential, The Unbuilt City never really gets off the ground. Written by New York native Keith
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Part-ghost train, part-art installation, Phobiarama is a strikingly unusual performance piece which sees its audience trundling around a sterile white environment in
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Winner of the 2017 Mercury Playwriting Prize, Europe After the Rain is the first full length play from author Oliver Bennett, a
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Reviving prolific playwright Simon Stephens’ flawed, elegiac 2003 drama One Minute in the age of social media, Iwan Lewis’ stylish but insubstantial
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Fizzing with humour, charm, and just a touch of chaos, Paul Hart’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a particularly light and delightful
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Sex, death, and grubbily nostalgic Americana slosh together in all of Christopher Brett Bailey’s work. Suicide Notes, touring in support of a
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Written in response to the Orlando nightclub shooting, Guillem Clua’s The Swallow is a slow burning, occasionally shattering play about the unspoken
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In an alternate 1940, King Edward VIII is on the throne, Nazi troops are advancing through Surrey, and the British government has
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In the wake of the Brexit vote, our political climate can feel fraught, uncertain, and downright bleak. Danielle Pearson’s time-hopping, multi-character monologue
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Feeling perhaps more chilling in the era of Twitter and Trump than it did at its 1994 debut, Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass
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Harkening back to a vanished historical moment when Britain willing sheltered child refugees, Diane Samuels’ softly-spoken tragedy commemorates 80 years since the
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When Fleetwood Mac sang Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow, their tone was optimistic. Writer and Director Lou Stein, however, turns the title
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Accused of anti-Semitism, successful poet Bev unravels in the midst of a social media storm in Checkpoint Chana, a sharply relevant but
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Casting new light on the ambiguities central to Henry James’ influential literary ghost story, Tim Luscombe’s Turn of the Screw is intelligent,
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Following the fortunes of a struggling amateur rugby club, John Godber’s 1984 underdog tale gets a playful and accessible treatment in Fingersmiths’
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Exploring the common anxieties underpinning contemporary life, The Drill is a smart, playful examination of the urge to over-prepare ourselves for future
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Closures, consolidation, and restructuring: Dave Fargnoli reviews a re-fashioning of John Dryden's Aureng-zebe.
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Raw, moving, and unashamedly melodramatic in parts, this stylish production of Romeo and Juliet from director Charlotte Conquest conveys all the play’s
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Taking its title from a well known beauty spot on the Cornish coastline, Booby’s Bay is a bleakly comic character study infused
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