72 stories by "Amelia Forsbrook"
Quel désastre, Britons: we live in a neglected nation! Our country may have entertained Shakespeare when he wasn’t fantasising about Italy, but come the mid-twentieth century and the …
He may be the world's greatest poster boy for innovation, but in a sketch entitled ‘A Cloudburst of Material Possession’, Leonardo Da Vinci exhibited a cynical second opinion con…
The only thing bigger than the eponymous top news story in this work by Sebastian Michael is the LA-sized meteor that is due to hit earth next Thursday. It’s now Friday, and from a TV …
Taking the train back from Deptford after playing my own minor part in Teatro Vivo's promenade adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey, I found myself scribbling names onto the programme. Unusuall…
Fuelled by perpetual waves of exasperation, likable comic actor Tamsin Greig (Black Books, Green Wing) sets the mumsiness to full throttle in this exploration of middle-aged anxiety and m…
Written by Noel Coward as part of a series of short plays, Still Life was designed to be performed within a collection spanning three evenings, before being picked up as the foundation for D…
"Get out of my head", cries an elderly Austrian therapist to the handful of guests that plague his study. He quickly exchanges the word "head" for "house", but in an imaginative production c…
At a point quite early in his show, glitter-coated baritone Le Gateau Chocolat expresses a reluctance to be “defined or confined by size, colour or sexuality”. It's a bold statem…
There are many different ways to be conventional. We can dress the same as those around us, we can fall in love with the kind of people our parents expect us to and we can subscribe wholehea…
How much is gold really worth? In this story of a young man preparing for an Olympic victory, national pride is pitched against personal anxieties as a teen struggles to balance the testoste…
Set in a bar in downtown Chicago, the collaboratively-devised A Life in Monochrome begins in style. Through the use of cabaret seating and an onstage jazz band, the company inventively trans…
"Do pop along if you are in London," tweeted performance artist Pat Ashe. "It's only £6 to watch me doing stuff on stage." Now, I don't know how much thought went into this marketing camp…
You would have thought that by now, the word 'farce' would have firmly established itself as an insult. The embarrassingly British, post-war style of performance known for rude characters wh…
It is hard to verbally express the inadequacy of language. Sometimes words just seem to burst at the seams, their intrinsic limitations ready to break due to the multiplicity of meaning they…
Some playwrights just demand to be heard, and none more so than Edward Bond, the outspoken writer whose revolutionary work Saved bellowed loud and brutal choruses against the Lord Chamber…
Something for the Winter may seem like an odd title for a play focused on last August's riots, but as this adaptation from The Bridge Theatre unfolds to reveal a young couple determined to p…
If any play is going to get you talking about boys, it's this all-female piece from the risque theatre company, Dirty Stop-Out. Shamelessly confessional and brutally voyeuristic, When Women …
It’s no secret that Greek mythology has stood the test of time because of its universal relevance. Ellen McDougall, Director of the Unicorn Theatre’s Greeks season has cel…
Do you remember watching magicians as a child, witnessing their show with an air of irritation as you tried to calculate how they pulled off their little illusions? When watching the multime…
There’s nothing plain about the clothing in writer and performer Inua Ellams’s bold piece, Black T-Shirt Collection. In telling the tale of Muhammed and Matthew, the trend-settin…
Waiting for Godot is a pretty frustrating play " but it’s also one of the most engaging pieces ever made for stage. Estragon and Vladimir’s tedious dance of absurdity as they wai…
From a projection on the backdrop, a blinking eye surveys us. Ingeniously positioned speakers fire instructions at the audience from every angle before music so heavy with bass it’s ba…
