65 stories by "Franciska Éry"
Getting Better Slowly (which, cleverly, is GBS for short) is a piece created by Adam Pownall, who was affected by Guillain-Barré Syndrome. This is his story, adapted by Nick Wood into an ev…
JB Priestley’s little known play The Roundabout is a light comedy about the class system in 1930s England. Richard Kettlewell (Brian Protheroe), a wealthy businessman is losing all his…
Spawny John (Lydia Lakemoore) and his friend, Duck (Rosie Grundy-Orchison), an inflatable duck, are sitting halfway down a Butlins water slide, eating and chatting away. They are frequently …
The curtains open and we see a man holding on to a huge piece of light fabric, dancing in the air, moved by a circle of fans. The wonder begins and I suddenly feel like a child again, recept…
Virtual Reality is in vogue: we are constantly presented with numerous opportunities to be surrounded by artificial atmospheres and immersed in the experience. But if wearing goggles isnR…
Virtual Reality is in vogue: we are presented with numerous opportunities to be surrounded by artificial atmospheres. But if wearing goggles isn’t your thing, Ron Arad’s Curtain …
LCP Dance Theatre’s piece, Escape, explores the journey of a refugee through aerial dance and physical theatre, responding to a very current topic. Using aerial slings, projection a…
Nigel (Gareth Cooper) arrives at a failing further education college to replace the Deputy Head of Faculty. He join board members, a group of peculiar and dysfunctional principals and …
Can opera be funny, performed in a tunnel shaft, and be accessible to opera newbies? The answer to all of these is yes, and Pop-up Opera’s production of Rossini’s The Barber of S…
Show Boat was not the first musical ever made, but it was definitely the first to introduce the form and structure of what we now know as the musical. Based on Edna Ferber’s hit novel,…
Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Flick comes to London’s National from New York, and it has a lot to say, but perhaps it is taking a bit too long to say it. Avery (J…
As we enter the space, Boy has already started; the actors circle around the stage on a moving travelator, sitting on invisible chairs. Following their collaboration on Game, this is directo…
As they often say, in Shakespeare’s time people went to hear plays, not to see them. This is quite fitting for Julia Stubbs Hughes’ adaptation of Hamlet; a one-man show encapsula…
Samba and Tears and Bridging the Void is an experimental double bill interested in fusing movement and dance with multimedia. Directed and choreographed by Sivan Rubinstein, Samba and Tears …
Circa 1820 a British aristocratic couple took in a poor shipwrecked girl because they thought she was a lost exotic princess from a distant kingdom. They introduced her to the high society a…
Divorced and abandoned, ‘Boxman’ sleeps in a box in his living room. His battles with OCD and alcoholism prevent him from living a full life, until he meets Mandy, the checkout g…
Who is Loren O’Brien? Is she famous? Should we just pretend to know her while we clap excitedly, waiting for her entrance? These questions are asked and answered by Loren O’Brien…
We enter the old, disused Victorian house and our photos are taken by the door while Always Look on the Bright Side of Life is playing in the background, juxtaposing with the almost depressi…
The award-winning Theatre North company brings a daring one-person adaptation of Shakespeare's play The Tempest to the Jermyn Street Theatre after performing around the UK and Europe. The pe…
Frank Wedekind’s Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box, also known as the ‘Lulu plays’ explore the power of sexuality and seduction while truly pushing the envelope in terms…
I have a heart monitor stuck onto my chest and an incredibly realistic baby doll in my arms. This is The Body, Nigel Barrett and Louise Mari’s innovative production, featuring live-fee…
Baddies: The Musical is Nancy Harris and Marc Teitler’s passion project that not only shows a different side to classical fairytale villains, but also challenges the definitions of goo…
What do we know about Belarus? I personally did not know enough, apart from its geographical position, some scattered pieces of information from the media and a couple of Eurovision songs. C…
Mia (Laura Dean) is pregnant, and she has no idea how or why. Ever since she broke up with Michael (Colin James), she hasn’t had sex, yet here she is, heavily pregnant. When the angel …
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s and Yabin Wang’s Genesis a piece on creation, nature and humanity. It aims to tackle several themes at once, investigating the DNA, observing the human bod…
