72 stories by "Amelia Forsbrook"
There's something so antithetical about dance and sculpture. One is an exercise in the static, an artform that strives to communicate as much as possible through a singular snapshot; the oth…
Is it okay to elope with another man's wife, if that other man turns out to be your father? Would you forgive a lover who only stopped his unfaithful ways after you convinced him you were…
The motif of the tattoo defines Richard Jones' production of the three act tragedy, Rodelinda. Italicised names – symbols of romantic devotion – are scrawled across the bodies of…
If, like the majority of the population, your access to sign language is generally limited to early morning educational programming " and a viral Mandela memorial faux pas " you …
Both the lady and her lover attest far too much in Christopher Alden's saucy take on Rigoletto. With more fluffy sentimentality than a Clinton Cards store on Valentine’s Day, Gilda (An…
First presented in 1990, Doug Lucie's Doing the Business plots a conversation between a theatre producer and a rich acquaintance as they debate how theatre (apparently an intrinsically lefti…
Anyone who's succumbed to the some of the more 'sparkling' pleasures of the workplace Christmas party may find a bubble or two of familiarity in the central themes of Ivan Turgenev's 1857 ta…
To raucous cries of "I love Sue", a stereotypical Sunday school teacher enters a homely set embellished with tinsel, kitsch decorations and Christian iconography. Immediately, our unlikely h…
Sometimes it's good to see aspects of popular culture surviving throughout the generations; in other cases, it's more reassuring to see a dated artform fall from its conceited grace and out …
There’s something decidedly downbeat about the vision of London that stains the flyer for Battersea Arts Centre’s 1-on-1-on-1 Festival, a form of sanitised speed dating for those…
Suspension breeds suspense in the first full-length work from playwright Serena Haywood, as Chris's mother and best friend try to come to terms with their loved one's drunken fall into a veg…
As absurdism is known for distorting the everyday in order to make its point, Closing the Gap Theatre has done well to seat the two plays that make up An Evening of the Absurd: Are We All St…
How do you give unrepresented young people a voice? Well, first of all you listen to them. In this sharp and informed piece of verbatim theatre, director Nadia Fall has done just that " inte…
We've all seen those crushing casting calls: "Wanted: Actor with 3+ years' experience and Drama UK accreditation. Must be able to lie still and portray a dead body for an entire scene." It c…
It's all about the high ceilings, the high ropes and the high brows in this ‘holier-than-thou’ collaboration between circus collective Circa and choral group I Fagiolini. Present…
Think that short has to be sweet? Think again. In Short and Stark, a flavoursome assortment of nimble plays opening at Southwark Playhouse at the beginning of July, playwright Joel Horwood i…
Youth may take flight and beauty may fade, but society's need to cast a scrutinising eye on its celebrities never grows old. Wickedly contemporary in tone despite being written in the 1950s,…
Which do you value more? Material possessions or the transformative power of literature? That was the dilemma pitched to Praxis Makes Perfect attendeis in the show's "important arrival infor…
No matter how much the marketing team at the National pushes its £12 Travelex ticket deal in order to diversify audiences, watching a piece designed to ridicule the collective middle clas…
Those who went along to Moving Stories'Â Vanessa and Virginia in order to learn more about the acclaimed Bloomsbury Group artist Vanessa Bell set themselves up to be seriously disappointed…
If, with its greasy foodstores and eccentric costumes, Camden is the circus of London, then for the next few weeks the Roundhouse is, without a doubt, our capital’s big top. Throughout…
If you've ever suffered from a lapse of concentration during a production, you're certainly not alone. Many theatre-goers have confessed to missing out on the moment where Godot swings by fo…
As Leslie Jordan's latest comedy routine begins, the big question that can seemingly only be answered through one man's anecdotal reflections is, "Do gay men really become their mothers?" Wh…
When avant-garde extraordinaire John Cage first placed his notation-free musical composition 4′33″ in front of a New York audience in 1952, the result was anything but silent. Wh…
Between the time Giuseppe Verdi debuted La Traviata in the mid nineteenth century and today, there have been enormous changes to opera audiences " and I'm not just talking about our oh-so-vu…
