Review: The English Heart, Etcetera Theatre
Billed as a Brexit-inspired tale, The English Heart seems to focus more on the obsessive power of sex than the political chaos of the last year. Yes, the characters speak about Brexit and fr…
Billed as a Brexit-inspired tale, The English Heart seems to focus more on the obsessive power of sex than the political chaos of the last year. Yes, the characters speak about Brexit and fr…
Edgar Allan Poe isn’t usually one for the faint hearted, and as I waited for the double bill of the king of gothic horror's dark short stories to start on Thursday 8th June 2017, I won…
Common is a little like a medieval Midsomer Murders. The new play written by DC Moore opens with disguised villagers taking the matter of common land into their own hands, setting the stage …
On paper, Last Night is exactly what London theatres should be showing. Celebrating, mourning and mimicking London’s diminishing night club culture, the billed spoken word and music pe…
I've never been to Margate, Kent, let alone its theme park Dreamland. This had me concerned as I entered Margate/Dreamland at Shoreditch Town Hall's ditch theatre. Yet somehow during the hou…
Several audience members are cradling their knees as they sit on the bed of soil. Two or three lucky ones have managed to nab a log to perch on. I collapse onto an elusive tree stump and pra…
There are many things you might associate with the Queen Mother. Her favourite tipple, The Belgian; organ music; group sex? Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer immerses you in the surreal world o…
Dusty turquoise corrugated iron lines the walls, cracked orange patterned tiles lie underfoot, a bottle of rum is poised ominously on the side; the setting of Assata Taught Me is unmistakabl…
It's not hard to understand why Brimstone and Treacle was banned in 1976. Written by Dennis Potter as a television play for BBC's Play for Today the work explores the darkest edges of humani…