Review: Kalakuta Republik, Barbican
Review: Kalakuta Republik, Barbican 4.0stars Taking inspiration from the life and work of Fela Kuti, magnetic musician, Afrobeat pioneer and unwavering political activist, Kalakuta Republik …
Review: Kalakuta Republik, Barbican 4.0stars Taking inspiration from the life and work of Fela Kuti, magnetic musician, Afrobeat pioneer and unwavering political activist, Kalakuta Republik …
Gus Mitchell talks about the environmental, political fuck-ups and drum n' bass concept albums with one of the performers currently in the Pleasance Theatre's Kill Climate Deniers. A militan…
Review: Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and Other Love Songs), Lyric Hammersmith2.0Overall ScoreJohn Gay's bawdy opera/proto-musical was a revelation and a shock when it first hit London in 1728. Pa…
As it returns for a major revival at the King's Head Theatre, Gus Mitchell talks to two actors from This Island's Mine about the enduring legacy of Gay Sweatshop, Section 28 and the importan…
Review: Dark Matter / Don't You Dare, Tristan Bates Theatre 3.0stars A Piece of the Continent is the Tristan Bates Theatre's festival of theatre in response to Brexit, bringing together show…
Gus Mitchell writes about the notion of ‘experimental’ theatre: Where this idea stands in 2019 and how looking back to 1960s Off-Off Broadway definitely explains a lot. It seems …
The team behind Chloe and the Colour Catcher, return with a very personal project about themselves – a same-sex couple and how and if they should have kids. The co-artistic directors o…
Federico Garcia Lorca's Yerma, first performed in 1934, is a deeply strange and dark play, full of rural ghosts, poetry and ritual. It's the final part, as the Cervantes team remind us, of h…
Pressure Points, written by Jack Stanley and presented in the stripped-back space at the White Bear, asks us what being a political young person today might look like. Following the fortunes…
The RSC's Don Quixote, originally staged at The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon in 2016, emerged from the company's 400th anniversary celebration of Shakespeare's death. Spain's father of …
Review: Mrs Dalloway, Arcola Theatre4.0StarsVirginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway is, like much of her work, more interested in the complexities of the human individual than in the intricacies of pl…