149 stories by "Camilla Gurtler"
Printworks London, the multi-purpose venue which has set out to shake the ground of the capital's cultural scene, has no
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It's said that epidemics are the biggest threat to the human population. Since our technologies have so rapidly advanced and
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One of the big questions that keeps being raised when rating the impact technology has on our lives is whether it destroys our capability for empathy. Empathy " the ability to understand and…
You can't help but see the streets of Borough in the light of the horrific events that occurred recently. It seems almost surreal going to the theatre for entertainment on the doorstep of te…
Innovative theatrical legend Robert Lepage is one of those few multi-talented sub-species that seem to be able to do anything they set their mind to. A world-wide renowned writer, director, …
Anyone who remotely sees themselves as a Disney fan will sing-scream at the top of their lungs when hearing that famous opening “let’s get down to business”. Mulan is such …
After a heatwave of Nordic Noir over the past few years, it makes my Danish heart flutter that the Print Room has decided to celebrate Karen Blixen, one of our greatest storytellers and an a…
Just moments after stepping out of Bunker Theatre, it was obvious this venue will keep drawing me back. Underground, raw and quirky, tailoring its space to each show coming in, making theatr…
If you had a daughter growing up in today's steamy political climate what is the advice you'd give her? Would you tell her that the blame is always on her and her alcohol consumption if she …
The story of Anastasia and her presumed flight from the slaughtering of the Tsar family is a modern fairy-tale that has stayed with me since childhood. I grew up on the hope she made it out …
“A diagnosis is a release, but it is also a separation.” In a physical dialogue with her disability, Suzie Birchwood expresses her struggle with dystonia as she trained as a ball…
We live in the hope that the future will be better than the reality we have today. That there will be better opportunities, more advanced technologies, more freedom, more choice. But what ha…
Our obsessive use of technology, the freedom of the internet and our persistence to control planet seems to send us down the path of an Orwellian future. A future where totalitarianism rule,…
Celebrating its forty-fifth anniversary, Jesus Christ Superstar protests once again, as Timothy Sheader adds modern spice to Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock phenomenon with not just heaven …
It's hard to define experimental theatre in a world where everything has been done before. Like an over-used Rubik's cube where most combinations have been explored, and still we have no fin…
It’s amazing how little we need to create vivid stories in our minds. That we can create worlds and people from pages in a book, from the sound of someone’s voice or the look in …
If you're under five, this is your show. If you've by far reached your pre-prime, then you can rejoice at how simple life once was with The Polar Bears Go Up. Following last year's success T…
How much would you give up to get what you want? Doctor Faustus decided everything. Shipped off his soul to the devil with a blindfold over anything called consequence. In Marlowe's sixteent…
Sensible people would probably say that 4.5 hours of Dutch Shakespeare is too much sand to swallow on a Friday night. Let alone a compilation of his history plays that with the connotations …
On paper The Suicide should be flawless. Attacking the bloodthirsty social media followers and their see-through empathy, the National would have hit it with the satirical boom it promised t…
When working in a conventional art form such as opera, with its roots stubbornly planted in the past, it can be difficult to imagine it shining a new light on the world. Many young audience …
Beachy Head in Eastbourne is one of the world's most popular suicide spots. You could say the site evokes a sense of mystery, a magnetic pulling-force; that the danger puts you face to face …
Following Simon McBurney's hyped spectacular that was The Encounter, it is both exciting and slightly puzzling to find another play on the London scene that explores a true story of the enco…
It's not too bold to say that The Encounter is out of this world. Simon McBurney's one-man show is simply like nothing you've ever experienced. And it is a total experience " it does feel li…
"But the theatre isn't glamorous", I've heard my friends say countless of times. "Film is so much more powerful, naturalistic and international." Don't get me wrong, film is all of those thi…
