65 stories by "Franciska Éry"
Review: Blood Knot, Orange Tree Theatre4.0starsWe are in apartheid Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 1961. The world outside is divided by race. We sit with the light-skinned Nathan McMullen's M…
Review: Queen Cunt: Sacred or Profane? Bunker Theatre3.0starsChina Blue Fish and Deborah Antoinette present an evening of sketch comedy circling around female genitalia, sexuality, body imag…
Review: The Ridiculous Darkness, Gate Theatre4.0starsPlease don't ask me what the plot is for The Ridiculous Darkness as it's impossible for me to tell you. Wolfram Lotz' absurdist radio pla…
Review: Art, Richmond Theatre 3.0stars Art is a good laugh. Written by award-winning French playwright, Yasmina Reza, the production was originally directed by Matthew Warchus and is now rev…
A man, surrounded by a blue glow, falls slowly into what looks like sand. The stage is dark. A woman in red watches him with a solemn expression. Suddenly, 215 bodies turn to their sides on …
I really love Pop-Up Opera. Not only because they make opera accessible to those who wouldn't pick Covent Garden as their first choice of entertainment; or because they make work that can to…
How does one adapt a graphic novel and turn it into a musical? And not just any graphic novel, but
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Karen meets Nick at a train station. Jamie meets Naomi on a dating app. Feel follows these four characters as
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There are many things that dazzle in Daniel Kramer's new production of La Traviata: shiny excess, costumes from many different eras and cultures, even a ball pit. Unfortunately, fewer things…
LeoÅ¡ JanáÄek's final opera never promised to be easy listening; based on Dostoevsky's novel set in a Siberian gulag, the piece might be difficult to digest at first hearing. It is a…
The first thing you notice about Nicholas Hytner's Julius Caesar is its atmosphere: we arrive at a political rally, a band playing The White Stripes' 'Seven Nation Army', beer and coke are o…
The Secret Keeper has every trope a fairy tale needs: the archetypes of a young prodigy and greedy parents, a miracle, and human flaws, which lead to an inevitable downfall and a moral lesso…
I climb the steps of the Hope Theatre as I read the blurb for Torn Apart. It says the play ‘puts women centre stage and deals with issues such as feminism, immigration, male repression…
There are many reasons why you laugh at Lily Bevan’s Trump’s Women. First of all, you laugh because it’s truly funny. Written and directed by Bevan, the play takes a look a…
Darryl is not John, the drag queen he met in a pub and called a ‘she-bloke’. ‘Not yet’, as he repeatedly tells us. He is an unemployed, ‘plain’ guy in a p…
The Young Vic's versatile main space has been transformed yet again; this time we are sitting under designer Lizzie Clachan's huge white disk, a canvas for projection stretching over the aud…
According to the blurb for Phina Oruche’s one-woman show Identity Crisis, the show is about Oruche’s personal journey through fashion and media, and what these different platform…
Curious Flamingo’s Egyptian Extravaganza is part of Colab Factory’s immersive season and promises to be a fancy dress experience exploring Egypt in the 1920s and the dangers of c…
'It will be 3 hours and 20 minutes with one interval and a short pause' the staff member warns me as I receive my copy of Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman. It is thicker than the notebook I br…
Very rarely does a play give me an increasingly uncomfortable feeling, a growing unrest. Most productions give some signals that allow me to predict their trajectory, preparing me for shock,…
Walking into the Harold Pinter Theatre, already one can feel the excitement in the air. Expectations are high. We take our seats, knowing we are about to see a spectacle: not only is Edward …
I walk out of Killer with relief, a huge grin, and a lingering chill down my spine. Above all, I want more, and that’s how I know that the play has done its best. Philip Ridley’s…
"If we shadows have offended…" says Puck, closing the two-hour long production of A Midsummer Night's Dream with the well-known epilogue. And while Joe-Hill Gibbins’ production p…
The Red Barn is David Hare’s new play based on Georges Simenon’s novel La Main, a story of crime, jealousy and desire. We are in Connecticut in 1969, and a snow storm is raging o…
Rose (Sue Wylie), a retired actress and now drama teacher, is diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease and Kinetics follows her struggle as she is determined to fight the disease an…
