Friday, October 11, 2019
Telling the story of a buffoonish liar swindling those he should be serving, Richard Bean’s One Man, Two Guvnors – adapted from
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Set in a traditional London pub on the night it goes out of business, We Anchor in Hope is a nostalgic elegy
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Every relationship, from the briefest fling to the longest marriage, comes with expectations attached. Gently interrogating the impact of gender roles and
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Full of ruthless ambition, destructive entitlement and cynical political flip-flops, King John may be amongst Shakespeare’s least-performed plays, but it certainly isn’t
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Tackling the fallout within a family that follows when one member commits an unconscionable crime, Mother of Him is a thoughtful, morally
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Investigating the controversial legacy of railway privatisation, The Permanent Way is a detailed, dry and typically forensic piece of verbatim theatre from
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Surviving on little more than Faith, Hope and Charity, a group of volunteers, vulnerable adults and desperate families gather in a dilapidated
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Mashing together family melodrama, a rags-to-riches success story and a little supernatural horror, Stardust is an ambitious new musical struggling under the
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For a play based around an act of provocation, there is nothing remotely challenging about Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière’s
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Reflecting on grief, friendship, and the sometimes-suffocating parameters of normality, So Here We Are charts the fallout of a young man’s sudden
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PMDigging into the ambiguities of stereotypes, social stigma, and of simultaneously loving and loathing the place you grew up, Stiletto Beach is
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Examining loneliness, love, and co-dependence, Chloe Moss’ How Love Is Spelt is an intricate and intriguing character study. Delicate, dreamlike, yet keenly
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There’s a cracking, crackling energy running through Jade City, an unfocused but undeniably powerful study of toxic masculinity and its victims. Discussing
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When unjust rulers erode our sense of community for selfish political ends, running off to start a better society in the woods
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Bursting with energy and movement, Paul Hart’s Kiss Me, Kate is a fun take on the well-loved, if utterly frivolous, musical-within-a-musical. Playing
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Returning to London’s Old Red Lion Theatre, where it premiered in 1982, Phil Young’s Crystal Clear is an introspective examination of life
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Jumbling together a selection of micro-plays from Tony award-winning writer Christopher Durang, The Actor’s Nightmare is as shallow and disordered as any
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Probably history’s first comedy spin-off, Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor is among his lightest, daftest plays, but that doesn’t mean it has
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Written in 1915, John Buchan’s pulpy espionage yarn The 39 Steps found lasting pop-culture fame as a seminal Hitchcock thriller, while Patrick
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Returning to the West End with a new line-up following a successful Broadway engagement, long running magical variety act The Illusionists is
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Vibrant, accessible and with an increasing emphasis on spectacle, this year’s Greenwich and Docklands International Festival programme is laden with boldly theatrical
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMRain falls, wolves howl in the woods, and a pianist plays an obscure, discordant composition by Erik Satie. Fully embracing an offbeat
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMThere’s no denying that Shakespeare’s bitter comedy of sleazy politicians and sexual extortion remains as resonant today as it ever was. Helmed
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Now in its fourth year, outdoor touring company Shakespeare in the Squares is taking a breezy, easy-going Dream on a circuit of
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Charting a course between the philosophical and the pointedly political, Al Smith’s Radio is a heartfelt monologue about the paradoxical fragility and
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Though it opens on a suitably melancholy note, with a shivering Viola staggering ashore, and a brooding Duke listening to love songs
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Dwelling more on the early history of rave music than on the impending ecological catastrophe facing our planet, Kill Climate Deniers is
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Written in the tumultuous decades following the English Restoration, Thomas Otway’s 1682 tragedy Venice Preserved is a strikingly bleak and misanthropic melodrama,
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Testament is a compassionate fable about coming to terms with grief, albeit one wearing the trappings of an edgy mental health drama
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Vividly capturing the feeling of being cornered in your local pub by a drunken stranger with a tale to tell, Jeffrey Bernard
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In 2016, as the Tory party grappled with David Cameron’s decision to hold a Brexit referendum, Boris Johnson invited Michael Gove to
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