59 stories by "Charlotte Irwin"
This Macbeth lives in a world of bin bag chic. Raves, duct-taped armour, heads thrown into plastic bags; this is an apocalyptic underworld where dad dancing mingles with murder, in a visuall…
As part of Sadler's Wells' fifteenth annual flamenco festival, MarÃa Pagés and her company take on Bizet's opera and present their version of Carmen's story in Yo Carmen. The affair is d…
Gold Coast should demand attention. Written by Louise Gooding, who has experience as a Radio 4 playwright, and with the award-winning (and sold out) Theatre 503 as the setting, this play set…
Somewhere between 1984 and The Office, lies It Made Me Consider Me. This surreal dystopian induction to R.A.L.P.H., the company which deals in the extraction and storage of unwanted human me…
Hoxton Hall, tucked down a side street in the depths of East London, is the perfect location for the debut of Lil Warren's new musical, Oranges & Elephants. The vaudeville-style stage th…
It has been a long while since I've had to wear a stickered name badge, and I wasn't expecting my visit to Notting Hill's Gate Theatre to be the next occasion when I would wear one. It is ev…
The Narcissist, as you might expect from such a title, is a one-man show. In the space of an hour, writer and performer Will Adolphy, uses monologue, dance, and an unexpected foray into acou…
FCUK'D – the debut play from writer Niall Ransome – is a lament to Britain's working class men. The unnamed protagonist who addresses the audience in poetic monologue is a Boy, w…
David is sick of being persecuted. In fact, David is sick of anyone in the LGBT+ community being persecuted. So, perhaps unsurprisingly throughout this multimedia, musical theatre-inspired m…
Kinkens may sound like the product of make-believe, but in fact the Old Scottish word for "evasive answers to questions from curious children", is more than fitting for Pip Hambly's Socratic…
Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Demons: Dostoevsky is synonymous with lengthy tomes, and this reworking of the aforementioned Demons doesn't let its author down in terms …
The ENO's The Barber of Seville is steeped in history, in more ways than one. Firstly, we have the inimitable Sir Jonathan Miller at the helm. Secondly, this production neatly marks 30 years…
Getting to Maiden Speech, the feminist voices festival taking over the confusingly named Theatre N16 (it's actually south of the river in Balham), is a theatrical experience in itself. Tu…
On the night of the moon landing, dreamer Sylvia Moone loses her virginity to an unnamed astronaut. 86 years later, her granddaughter of the same name, is just that, a NASA astronaut travell…
White guilt. That's the shame at the core of the Salvation: Shamanic Striptease. In just under an hour White African performance artist Daniel P. Cunningham seeks to confront his past with h…
The allure of redefining myth never fails to entice. It's a rite of passage for many theatre companies, and with Medusa the experimental and immersive 27 degrees try their hand at teaching t…
As the name suggests, Philip Correia's debut is an exploration of the home – or as his Northumberland-native characters' say, hyem. Set in a dysfunctional patchwork 'family', HYEM (yem…
Watching. That is the essence behind the voyeuristic Window. A young couple "Grace and Jimmy " are settling into their life together and find unexpected escape by watching the sex life of th…
Rob Drummond is on a democratic mission. Part game-show, part-memoir, Drummond's latest experimental work " The Majority – is founded in truth "more or less" as he explains how he came…
FREAK is undeniably provocative. Juxtaposing lap dancing club orgies with first time sexual experiences, Anna Jordan's sex-focused play seeks entry to the growing canon of flawed female char…
Without interval, My Mind is Free submerges you in tales of human trafficking. As four strangers huddle under blankets in a locked lorry hurtling towards their next prison this production se…
The English National Opera is on staycation. Abandoning its Coliseum home for the summer (for Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell musical) the ENO has moved to the Royal Festival Hall for its perfor…
Playing on gender, death, myth and science Tiresia is undeniably engaging. An adaptation of the Greek myth of the blind prophet Tiresias who famously became a woman for seven years, this pro…
Terror is undeniably relevant. The recent attacks in Manchester and London mean that the word is all too ready at hand, a default thought, society's daily fear. Therefore, this international…
Rose Matafeo is far from dead. Bursting out of a coffin singing "It's my funereeaal", Matafeo's frenetic performance starts as it means to go on, without a corpse in sight. Auckland-born Mat…
