18 stories by "Amelia Curran"
Both a love letter and a lament to London and its obscene housing crisis, In Memory of Leaves is an intensely personal one-woman show exploring love, loss and gentrification. Performed on a …
It’s difficult to tackle a classic of Frankenstein’s proportions. But director Ross McGregor and the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre really know how to put on a show. Arresting, emo…
First performed in 1955, Alice Childress' Trouble in Mind is still depressingly relevant today. A poignant exploration of the many insidious facets of racism, the play examine…
Who can resist a bit of drag? Fun, flirty and full of classic musical hits, Drag Me to Love is a short but sweet production recounting star and writer Cameron Sharp's personal journey to dra…
Ah, the circus. A melting pot of obscure, at times inexplicable yet utterly compelling talents and abilities that never fail to elicit childlike delight. Limits, the latest production by Sca…
Ben Whishaw delivers a winning performance in this flawed but captivating production that raises pertinent questions about violence, fame and moral culpability. Silicon Valley tech billionai…
A piece from the King’s Head Theatre Queer Festival, which commemorates fifty years since the decriminalisation of homosexuality, Funeral Meats tackles the legacies of same-sex marriag…
If C4 sitcom Fresh Meat were a musical, you’d get something akin to Lovestuck, a classic coming-of-age tale of self-discovery, unlikely friendships and the trials and tribulations of s…
Twilight Song, the final play by the celebrated late playwright Kevin Elyot (most famous for his widely acclaimed play, My Night With Reg), has been given its posthumous premiere at Finsbury…
Three is the highly engaging and intensely topical final piece of the National Youth Theatre’s “Playing Up” programme. In turns funny, dark, chaotic and profound, the play …
From Little Bulb Theatre comes Extravaganza Macabre, a mock-Dickensian romp that parodies Victorian melodrama and keeps the audience in fits of giggles from start to finish. Packed with ener…
A moving production of Steven Dietz’s award-winning drama that explores male friendship in the gay community during the tragic AIDS pandemic of the 1980s. On arrival at the Tabard Thea…
David Furlong directs The/Le Misanthrope, a modern re-imagining of the 1666 Molière classic that will be performed alternately in English and the original French over the coming four weeks.…
Slick, insightful, and exceptionally funny: critically acclaimed poet Luke Wright's The Toll is a powerful reading of selected poems from his second collection. Following the success of the …
A sumptuous exploration of modern tango, Milonga (m¡longa) first premiered in London in 2013 and has now returned for its first UK tour. Choreographed and directed by highly acclaimed cho…
If you worry that cruel life has scuppered your dreams of becoming an investigative journalist, fear not: Death of the King at the CoLab Factory offers an opportunity to live those yet unrea…
A triumph of physical comedy, the opening night of the London Clown Festival was unexpected, imaginative and downright delightful in its sheer, unadulterated silliness. If you are a novice l…
Ténéré Arte presents Voices from Chernobyl, a harrowing and evocative production that poignantly conveys the abject horror of one of the worst nuclear disasters in human history. Based on…
