325 stories by "Jake Orr"
In the hundreds of shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, you know there is a hidden gem waiting to be discovered. It couldn't come any more energy-filled and exciting as Charlotte Josephin…
National Theatre of Scotland bring their laugh-a-minute production of Appointment with the Wicker Man under the guise of The Loch Parry Players to Assembly Music Hall at the Edinburgh Fri…
Neil Gore adapts Stephen Lowe’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists into a stripped two-handed play that keeps both Gore and fellow performer Fine Time Fontayne running around t…
Ontroerend Goed are no strangers to Edinburgh, having brought a string of productions that have provoked, shocked, or just allowed their audience to feel something more than being lifeles…
X, a housewife with two children, has moved to a small village with her husband, away from the chaos of the city. Here, in the quiet landscape of rural life, she attempts to find herself and…
In Ontroerend Goed’s production For once and all we’re going to tell you who we are so shut up and listen, Nathalie Marie Verbeke and Charlotte De Bruyne showed audiences that…
Greg, a thirteen-year-old school boy, is on the cusp of his birthday and becoming a man. From fumbling with girls to stealing newspapers in the hope of making some quick cash to watch his dr…
The Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre is, much like the National Theatre’s Cottesloes Theatre, a space that offers experimentation to limited audiences. Hidden at the…
If there is one thing I have learnt recently, it is how much of the National Theatre is hidden from sight amongst the cocooning layers of concrete. Where Made In China’s Get Stuff Brea…
Here is a little large round up of the most common mistakes made by arts organisations, individuals and companies when using Twitter. Feel free to add your own in the comments afterwards, an…
We’ve all seen those statistical reports about the current opinion of Londoners in magazines and papers. They’re quoted in government reports, and slowly filtered down so that th…
Ganesh Versus the Third Reich as part of LIFT Festival sees the return of Back to Back Theatre, the Australian company that brought Food Court to the Barbican in 2010. Working to provoke and…
I’m an emotional person, this much I know about myself, but when it comes to theatre I have developed a heart of stone. I’ve spoken previously about how music can make my heart s…
In a dusty forgotten part of Greenwich, set against the backdrop of Canary Wharf and the financial district, Motor Show is being driven for a sold-out audience. A hybrid of performer/c…
In Joshua Conkel’s UK debut at the Finborough Theatre, The Sluts of Sutton Drive, the somewhat insignificant life of Stephanie Schwartz (played by the superb Georgia Buchanan) is given…
In Made In China’s last piece We Hope That You’re Happy (Why Would We Lie?) it hoped that we were happy, truly happy with the world that we lived in, despite all the pain and vio…
As crowds gather on a blustery Friday night in front of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, there is a certain electric excitement in the air. Word on the ground is that we’re a…
“Utopia: a place or state of things in which everything's perfect. The opposite of Dystopia.” The brilliant irony of this sentence is that one person's utopia is someone else's d…
Appearing as part of the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival, Handspring Puppet Company UK, which is behind the hit War Horse puppets, presents Crow by Ted Hughes. A long collecti…
Our friends at Soho Theatre have an offer for half price tickets to Greg McLaren’s hilarious new show Doris Day Can Fuck Off and yes, it really is called that. It’s only valid on…
Dreamthinkspeak, the immersive and installation-based theatre makers under the direction of Tristan Sharpe, present a stripped and reconfigured version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in The R…
It took Elevator Repair Service ten years to develop and get the rights to perform The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, and this verbatim-read version, Gatz, is the result. Performing at …
Ladies in Lavender is comfort food in theatre form. Looking around the auditorium before the start of the performance it was clear that if you were under 50 then you were very much in the mi…
The below speech was given at the Theatres Trust’s Conference on Delivering Sustainable Theatres on Tuesday 12 June. You can see the full line up of speakers here. When I was invited t…
In Notion Theatre Company’s presentation of Bobby Cronin’s musical Daybreak, we follow the challenge of finding your reason for living and finding another person to live it with.…
