59 stories by "Charlotte Irwin"
Review: Grief is the Thing with Feathers, The Barbican4.0starsIt's hard to know where to begin with Grief is the Thing with Feathers. It's a surreal yet deceptively simple piece that almost …
Review: No Kids, Battersea Arts Centre4.0Overall ScoreNo Kids is much more than a play. It's an argument, a discussion, a life decision. An exchange between real-life couple Nir Paldi and Ge…
Review: Anomaly, Old Red Lion Theatre3.0starsAnomaly places itself at the heart of the Time's Up and #MeToo movement. Focusing on three daughters of a media mogul, Philip Preston, who has ju…
To an extent, The Rave Space does what it says on the tin. You walk down the stairs into the dark basement of Camden People's Theatre, get your hand stamped, take your purple laser, and star…
Towards the end of Made In China's Super Duper Close Up, solo-performer Jess Latowicki tells the audience, "I always thought my story would be one with backing dancers." There is a certain s…
A Pupil is a not just a play, but a concert of sorts. This strings-based affair is both visually and aurally commanding in its tale of a teenage violinist being taught by an old, female, mas…
Travis Alabanza speaks from the heart. They open Burgerz with a short story about how someone threw a burger at them on Waterloo Bridge and shouted "tranny" in 2016. This anecdote of abuse i…
As you wait for POT to begin, a mist hangs in the air and around the brown-tinged set. This flat has patched up floors, a faded sofa, a grimy radiator and clutter in the form of crushed beer…
Albert Camus's 1942 novel L'Etranger follows Meursault, whose mother dies, and who then kills an Arab man on the beach just because the sun was in his eyes. It has now been adapted for th…
Eastern Star looks back to Burma's 1988 revolution, comparing the viewpoints of a British Journalist and a Burmese Human Rights lawyer who reveals himself as "an architect of the revolution"…
Adam Walsh " no " Adam Welsh is an actor. An actor who found that when he Googles himself, the
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Breathe begins calmly, speeds up, overlaps, hits you in the face, and…reminds you that life can get out of control
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Where the Hell is Bernard? straddles a strange space between dystopian drama and mime. This Edinburgh preview of the play
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Watching The Lieutenant of Inishmore you get the feeling that everyone on stage is having a good time. That might
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Henry James' The Turn of the Screw is a story that never feels solved. It demands the questions of who
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John Berger's A Fortunate Man " accompanied by Jean Mohr's photographs " was published in 1967, as a 50:50 collaboration
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This updated version of Strindberg's classic Miss Julie, drops the Miss, and plunges us into a modernised upstairs-downstairs conundrum. In
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It's 1958 New York, and the artist Mark Rothko is painting his Seagram Murals. The series of paintings, which can
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Fox Hunting as a title evokes the countryside battles between the government and wealthy hunters who chase and kill for
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Rodney Ackland's Absolute Hell was originally conceived as The Pink Room. The work delving into the hilarious and often tragic
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Suicide. Terrorism. Adultery. The themes of Marion Blott's Moormaid don't suggest comedy, but Marion Blott's script is at its most
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Jackie Hagan is an award-winning playwright, the 2018 Jerwood Compton Poetry fellow, and working class. And so, the monologue that
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The Country Wife was written by William Wycherley in 1675, but Morphic Graffiti's adaptation brings us to the Roaring Twenties where a group of Bright Young Things " and a few not so young "…
Coraline fast became a cult classic when Neil Gaiman's children's novella was first published in 2002. There has since been the award-winning stop-motion film adaptation, a musical, and even…
It is worth remembering that Sheep Also Dream is a work in progress. The two-man surrealist piece by real-life brothers, The Davis Brothers " Tom and Ben – is a little rough around the…
