Have you ever been to the state of Georgia? I certainly hadn’t before I met J. Fergus Evans, but during his intimate performance at the PULSE Festival I could swear I was there, being …
Can eating disorders ever be funny? Surely we've all been in situations so awful that the only response we can make is to laugh. This is the method Caroline Horton uses in Mess to tackle ano…
It may be small in scale and a little obscure, but the ten-day PULSE Festival at Ipswich's New Wolsey Theatre has a rich, eclectic range of shows which bring its loyal, almost cult-like audi…
The moody overcast sky and the anniversary of the execution of George Boleyn in 1536 seemed fittingly portentous for the opening night of Fallen in Love in the Tower of London. The Suffolk-b…
The Café is a site-specific performance, performed in the Coffee Works Project in Angel, which tells the all-too familiar story of austerity through a day in the life of a struggling café …
The first half of this double bill by the Hide and Seek Theatre company attempts to take us into the world of 24-year-old Radha, a girl with severe autism. The piece is performed by Chandni …
This new play by Lila Whelan grew out of a short news item to become a deeply moving, often shocking examination of the human causes of a house fire which killed two young children and their…
Feast is a work of ambitious scope, taking on the familiar story of African enslavement and subsequent dispersion throughout the Atlantic world. It’s harrowing subject matter, as is ma…
You know you're in for an interesting evening when you're issued with an adapted bin bag on entry. And when you note that the floor has been changed into what looks a bit like a large paddli…
Having seen the Royal Ballet's stunning take on John Cranko's Onegin the night before at the ROH, I was struggling to imagine how the Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker would compare with …
Jane Montgomery Griffiths's extraordinary one-woman play brings the ancient Greek poetess Sappho to life in order to ponder her existence. It's part literary history, wi…
It seems no season is complete without a clutch of Seagulls, a Cherry Orchard or two, or an Uncle Vanya, and there's no doubt Chekov's current popularity would blow the imagination of the ni…
"Some hurtful things have been written in the bus shelter", the cast is disillusioned and mutinous, and the power keeps going off. Yet the Spreyton Gurnish Am Dram Society Christmas show ope…
Theatre 503, a small stage above the Latchmere pub on Battersea Park Road, has a reputation for staging provocative new writing. Led since 2006 by Artistic Directors Tim Roseman, who left th…
The Rose Theatre's festive offering this year is Charles Way's charming adaption of the Cinderella rags-to-riches fairytale. Set in late eighteenth century Germany, in a kingdom devastated b…
What is Argentina's most successful export? Aside from the excellent Malbec wines produced in the high-altitude conditions of Mendoza province, and perhaps football deities like Messi and Ma…
Is it ever better not to know? What if, for example, you suspected your own government was complicit in the torture of terror suspects? Pentabus Theatre's new production Blue Skies gives us …
We dart across the road in front of irritated taxi drivers; the girl with the gold bag pauses uncertainly at the corner of the street. She turns and starts walking away. We follow, rushing t…
"War is just business", even in the twenty-first century. As Blackeyed Theatre brings Brecht's anti-war play forward some 400 years, it's obvious that his challenges are just as relevant tod…
Take some cracking Irish characters, throw in a bitter and confusing love triangle, a terminal illness and the twilight period of life, and you get something rather special. Hugh Leonard's 1…
We are playing a game, a game of make-believe. There's a king and a queen, the king's chum from school who also happens to be a king, and the gamekeeper who does little to hide her disappoin…
Shakespeare's tale of financial and emotional turmoil is here located in the Venice of the near future; references to the failing Euro and the vicious world of money-lending conjure images o…
In the world of literature, love often seems to lead to murder, but what happens when the victim is a bed-bound war veteran? In many ways, Somerset Maugham's The Sacred Flame is a classic…
The Wiz started life as a Broadway show in 1975, based on Lyman Frank Baum's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Producer Ken Harper transferred the tale from rural Kansas to the city, creating…
Transform season is introduced as a two week conversation about theatre. It's all about change; changing what it means to be an audience member, exploring how performance can, and should, ch…