105 stories by "Frey Kwa Hawking"
Vault Festival's array of new productions continues with another solo show: Stardust, performed and devised by Miguel Hernando Torres Umbra and his company, Blackboard Theatre, with writing …
The Battersea Arts Centre is the kind of place you could imagine Romeo and Juliet meeting: the ceilings are high, the paint gaudy but peeling, the lighting soft. It lends slight atmosphere t…
Like the character at the heart of The York Realist, the playwright Peter Gill was also once a young, learning director working on a revival of York's Mystery Plays in the 60s with a cast of…
The Soul of Wittgenstein, which first appeared at the excellent King's Head Theatre two years ago, is once again with us in London, with the same cast and core crew but this time at the Omni…
The Vault Festival is a fantastic initiative, and one of the best opportunities out there to see really promising new work that with proper attention should go on to reach even larger audien…
One of the main appeals of video games and action films is power-fantasy fulfilment: step into a digital world and you can exercise abilities far greater than any you might be capable or bot…
Asia and theatre! Not a contradiction. Foreign Goods 3’s third showcase of new writing about and by Asians, at the Arcola, launches their new book published by Oberon, Foreign Goods…
I was embarrassingly eager to see this, one of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s earlier works, on a triumphant return to the Young Vic. McCraney’s profile has naturally risen since Moonli…
Claudia Jefferies is a charismatic, confident performer " you watch her and have to give her the respect she knows is her due. Syd and Sylvia has a fantastic concept behind it and, because o…
This is a deeply horrible play. I don't mean that this is a dark play, or that Time and Tide's production of it is a bad one, but that very early in the play I could tell why it received poo…
Clearwater Collective's Dark Suit and Lavender Shirt, Standing bills itself as a "multi-disciplinary" production on the life of Egon Schiele, mainly focusing on his relationships with Gustav…
Anniversaries: 150 for the Finborough Theatre, 80 for Nanking. Into The Numbers isn't a perfect production, but once again the Finborough shows its excellent feel for European premieres, rev…
Amy Herzog's Belleville, at the Donmar Warehouse this winter, grasps at a few things: the experiences of 'expats' vs. 'immigrants' in foreign countries, the romanticisation of the city of Pa…
I'd probably have appreciated Macbeeth better had I not the night before watched some Garth Marenghi's Darkplace with friends, which remains one of the most perfect examples of genre parody …
Monobox, the not-for-profit workshop and play resource which gives those at the start of their careers a path into theatre, has recently directed a request for help to the theatre community.…
I actually spent much of Dear Brutus watching Michael Billington looking dissatisfied then leaving as fast as he could (similarly, the two friends of an actor I talked to outside after the p…
In the final leg of its tour of the UK, the Sex Worker's Opera has garnered a huge and passionate response in its various incarnations since 2014. Siobhan Knox, one of the directors, describ…
Opera and musical theatre have historically not been very kind in their representation of certain demographics: BME people, for example, barely figure in what we consider to be the classics …
Hammer House of Horror Live: The Soulless Ones marks the long-time horror production house's first foray into immersive theatre, and it delivers the goods. It's true, no two audience experie…
The China Changing Festival returns to the Southbank Centre this year, taking over the building for one day to focus on the relationship between modern China and Britain, and to showcase som…
This debut play by Laila Bouromane is an accomplished and slick production, and a better tribute than the company Hambre’s other recent show Another Northern Man – also directed …
The Hope Theatre is an example of one of the great smaller venues in London dedicated to opportunities for new writing and allowing creatives to get off the ground " its 50-seat black box sp…
"Were we having an argument? I thought we were having a baby." Without a doubt, Eleonora Fusco deserves the attention that she received from the Papatango New Writing Prize and the BBC Write…
Ramona Tells Jim, the debut play by Sophie Wu at the Bush Theatre, is a production fuelled by nostalgia to confront the gap that exists between expectations of what life will be like when we…
Keith Bunin's The Busy World is Hushed takes aim at the motivations behind the faith of individuals, which here means questioning what, exactly, ties us to where we happen to be, what it is …
