Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Colourful and competently delivered, Alan McHugh’s Jack and the Beanstalk is a lavish, fun but frequently flat affair. Director David Janson livens
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Packed with breathtakingly bad puns and breathless but pitch-perfect singing, Peter Pan at the Harlow Playhouse is an ambitious and effective production.
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Poised between traditional panto and jukebox musical, this energetic interpretation of Beauty and the Beast is carried along on a blast of
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Feeling impressively fresh while ticking all the traditional boxes, writer and director Daniel Buckroyd’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a
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Owing more to Disney than the Brothers Grimm, writer and director Lou Stein’s Rapunzel is a pleasant fairytale with a tangled, overstuffed
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Based on Mary Norton’s charming children’s stories about a race of tiny people living beneath the floorboards of a country house, The
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Moral quandaries and hidden motivations simmer at the heart of The Secondary Victim, a dense discussion of ethical dilemmas from playwright and
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Drenched in the glitter and sleaze of 1920s Hollywood, Claudio Macor’s tale of sex scandals and open secrets at a major studio
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Examining the life of a fascinating but often overlooked historical figure, Matilda the Empress is a tightly-plotted account of England’s first civil
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Shot through with elegance and icy restraint, this touring remount of Tom Kempinski’s stingingly insightful Duet for One feels every bit as
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Now in its 10th year, London’s varied and vivacious Casa festival has grown into an impressive and important platform for both international
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Kicking off with a swaggering, seamlessly choreographed movement sequence packed with evocative details and expressive character interactions, Simon Pittman’s Othello is infused
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Ambitious, angry, and intriguing, Evan Placey’s radical adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde for National Youth Theatre transforms the familiar story into a
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There is a suicide on the UK’s railways every 31 Hours. Packed with informed research, Kieran Knowles’ second play draws out the
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Peace activist Rachel Corrie was 23 years old when she was killed by an Israeli bulldozer while protesting the demolition of Palestinian
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Less a tragic tale of ego and evil forces, more a spooky pantomime complete with cackling devils and angels in nightgowns, Joseph
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Charting the slow unravelling of a doomed relationship, Fox is a bleak, bold but muddled writing debut from author Harrison Rose. From
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Twenty years on from its first production, Conor McPherson’s elegiac modern classic The Weir remains as unsettling and affecting as ever. Unfolding
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Wrapping up the first year of productions at the Bunker, Eyes Closed, Ears Covered is a bleak story about the fallout of
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There is an inherent drama in the scramble of shifting loyalties and last minute deals that mark every FIFA transfer window. Focusing
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Thirty years after its New York premiere, Eric Bogosian’s incendiary examination of truth in a world of uninformed, unscrupulous pseudo-celebrities has lost
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Spinning out true accounts of anonymous sex into a broader meditation on intimacy, Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist is an
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In 1989, abstract painter Sir Terry Frost created a portfolio of vivid images based on the fiery symbolic poetry of Federico Lorca.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AMFollowing a group of friends wrestling with dysfunctional relationships and inner demons, The Friday Night Effect is part miserable soap opera, part
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMSuccessfully walking a tightrope between exploitative and insensitive, Catherine and Anita is a neat psychological thriller with a streak of twisted, pitch-black
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Starkly examining an abusive, co-dependent relationship, You Forgot the Mince is a grim and affecting story lifted by moments of real warmth.
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Packed with ideas and delivered with infectious enthusiasm, Mia: Daughters of Fortune examines the challenges facing parents with learning disabilities. A series
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:18AMBrash, daft, and occasionally, elusively euphoric, The Unmarried is a high energy monologue. It revolves around vivacious, vacuous Luna, a woman unable
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Set in a hermetically sealed society where unproductive citizens are euthanised to stave off starvation, Rupture is a promising but underwritten post-apocalyptic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMRambling, intentionally banal, but also undeniably funny, comedian and slam poet Daniel Piper’s second solo show sees him agonising over the implications
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMExploring anxieties about the impact of the internet on young people, Pixel Dust is timely and intelligent, but often frustratingly unfocused. Writer
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