14 stories by "Emma Minihan"
The programme for a performing and visual arts festival taking place across Norfolk and Norwich has launched. The Norfolk and Norwich Festival celebrates performance, theatre, music, visual …
London Classic Theatre’s revival of The Birthday Party makes for a funny and chilling evening. The pairing of comedy and unsettling drama is not a natural one, but this Harold Pinter c…
Birdheart has been co-commissioned by VisionIntoArt and National Sawdust’s curator in resident program. It is created and performed by Julian Crouch and Saskia Lane. Performed in…
Electric and pulsing, Teddy is a flash of a show with two perfectly pitched anti-heroes and a swinging soundtrack. Credit is due across the board for the creative team, but let’s start…
Initially I was somewhat sceptical of seeing The Beaux' Stratagem; on the surface it looked to be another standard middle-class male hunt for the prettiest and richest bride "Â cue a slaps…
Gods Are Fallen and All Safety Gone is a gentle exploration of a mother and daughter relationship, played with deftness and tact by Sean Campion (Mother) and Scott Turnbull (Daughter). The g…
Maybe I Should Freeze My Eggs is part of the Illuminate Festival at New Wimbledon Studio Theatre. It is an emotional devised show that uses clowning, humour, music and physical theatre to ta…
Opening Night by Les SlovaKs was a glorious, emotional, funny, beautifully messy hour of dance in the Purcell Room at Southbank Centre. Five male dancers and a violinist waited on a bare …
Princess Ida at the Finborough Theatre is the first professional production of this operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan in over twenty years. As someone not versed in the history of Gilbert and…
Radiant Vermin is a 90 minute comic satire that touches on themes of housing, consumerism and basic morals; who knew polite parents-to-be could get this dark! The two protagonists Jill (Gemm…
A white canvas stage, ripe for splatter-painting, greets the audience of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Lyric Hammersmith. This is the second show in Secret Theatre company's 48-hour per…
Touretteshero: Backstage in Biscuitland was part of the FIRSTÂ 2015 festival of solo performances at the Tristan Bates Theatre. This production had me smiling throughout, and contains some…
La Barbe-Bleue, one third of Boireannach's ‘Into the Mire’ season took place in The Pit as part of the Vault Festival in Waterloo. This devised piece, inspired by the French f…
Ridiculusmus’s multi-faceted production of The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland takes place in a beautiful but challenging room in the Battersea Arts Centre, a challe…
