Review: Paradise of the Assassins, Tara Arts
This is a well-intentioned production by Theatre Accord in association with Tara Arts that examines the capacity for and dependence on mind control in organized religion. Adapted from Abdul …
This is a well-intentioned production by Theatre Accord in association with Tara Arts that examines the capacity for and dependence on mind control in organized religion. Adapted from Abdul …
"We are the electorate. And we are not trustworthy". Theatre company Riot Act explore the fallible nature of democracy in this very funny and direct production. One of the Ibsen's least famo…
Ballet National de Marseille's 70-minute dance drama is a quite epic foray into the possibilities of artistic expression. Using 17 dancers in the almost completely bare Royal Festival Hall s…
Blue Guitar Theatre utilise and build on extracts of Lord Byron's Cain: A Mystery to explore ideas of death and religion in this dystopic drama. We follow Cain's story as a disgruntled, unse…
This Was The World and I Was King is a war-time drama about Evelyn, who returns to her family home; the play engrosses the audience in a nostalgiac recounting of the events of her childhood.…
Bernard Shaw's wonderfully wicked and witty play, The Philanderer, is a real joy to behold on hearing the text alone. Shaw utilises a seemingly innocuous configuration of love triangles to e…
This is a really lovely show. The Box of Photographs is a play that explores the imagination of a young girl growing up in inner city London. The play itself is part of a project that Polka …
The Finborough continue their series of works written about or during the time of the Great War with this engaging staged reading of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy's brilliant piece on the…
Go and see this production. Go and witness the very essence of drama in practice. Change is occurring now and right now in Lorraine Hansberry's twentieth century masterpiece (expertly fin…
Richard and Sheryl are an interracial couple participating in a series of 'bedroom interviews' via webcam. The main focus is on their relationship, and there is the possibility that the inte…
Lola is a very Spanish woman, who enjoys Sangria, Flamenco dancing but really hates tap dancing because it “sounds like cockroaches”. She has a boyfriend, Fernando, who plays gui…
"That's the thing with coloured folks " they always wanna have a good time". I'm paraphrasing, but in this one line Lucian Msamati's Toledo perfectly sums up this five-star production. In ad…
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the subject of Ridiculusmus's new show, Give Me Your Love, the second in a trilogy of productions by artistic directors and performers David Woods an…
As their website details "The Rose (Playhouse, Bankside) is an archaeological site" and tonight's audience, many of whom were provided with blankets to cover and warm up their legs, watched …
Dick Whittington and His Cat concerns a quasi-fictional London of some bygone age that succumbs to the evil plans of the signposted villain 'Ratface'. Infesting the City with rats, he scheme…
In Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson's 1999 masterpiece, Tom Cruise plays an abominable pick-up artist and we first see him introducing himself at one of his 'Seduce and Destroy' seminars with …