24 stories by "Katie Angus"
The Savill Garden in Windsor Great Park is possibly the perfect setting for Shakespeare's most colourful and bewitching play, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Amongst the fragrant folds of the flo…
In the vast folds of popular theatre, there is little doubt there will always be a place for that well-loved and timeless genre: the farce. With affairs and arguments, slapstick and sillines…
“And what is the use of a book”, thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?” Within the walls of Battersea Library, lined with shelves of fact and fiction alik…
Within the first ten minutes of Trainspotting, I'd been hauled into a neon-pumping rave, witnessed full-frontal nudity and been called every expletive under the sun. Behind me a couple had l…
Formerly standing side by side with The Globe on the banks of the Thames, The Rose Playhouse is now an archaeological site overshadowed by the impressive reconstruction of her once rival sis…
Boris Eifman is famous for being controversial. His ballets are highly-charged, highly sexual and hugely psychological. Anna Karenina, based on Tolstoy's classic novel, delivers Eifman's bol…
Vicky, James and their miserable brother Andrew arrive expectantly at Auntie Val's cottage, excited for a relaxing and cosy Christmas, and for the treats Auntie Val has laid out especially f…
Jack and the Beanstalk returns to the Nottingham Playhouse in all its usual pantomime glory with dazzling sets, shocking costumes and even more outrageous lines. Dame Daisy, Jack and friends…
A Christmas Carol " As Told By Jacob Marley (Deceased), Hyland’s award-winning one-man show delivers, in a masterful storytelling style, the age-old tale of Charles Dickens’s …
1984 is arguably the most famous dystopian political novel of all time. Orwell's symbols, allegories and concepts have influenced a myriad of social commentators and left-wing ideologists…
In a land far, far away, the four brothers Charming each dream of becoming king. In order to assure their ascendancy, they need to be the first to find and marry a princess. With family feud…
In the future, in a galaxy far, far away, criminals Gary and Tyler have just stolen a spaceship off Dodgy Pete leading to the biggest adventure of their lives, and of the whole of the twenty…
No Bones About is a new student company stepping out from the cosy studios of its Alma Mater onto the well-trodden " and harshly lit " stages of various upcoming fringe festivals. The group,…
Blink and you'll miss it " Encompass Production's staging of Emma Minihan's Life in a Sketchbook (a play comprising six interlinking te- minute scenes) offers a voyeuristic and witty glimpse…
The Rain That Washes is based upon the true story of Chickenshed collaborator Christopher Maphosa, and the shifting dramatic events of his life in Ian Smith's Rhodesia and then Mugabe's Zimb…
A dramatisation of an entire Dickens novel is no mean feat, and Jo Clifford's adaptation of Great Expectations delivers on all accounts the fear, cruelty and horror that the novel and the co…
In her play written in 1973, two years before the collapse of the Franco Regime, Diosdado's condemnation of the Spanish dictatorship is painfully clear. Yours for the Asking follows a week i…
Educating Rita follows the intellectual journey of hairdresser Rita (or Susan) whose passion for English Literature, for knowledge and for a chance to better herself brings her to the unoile…
I walked into the Lion and Unicorn Pub in Kentish Town a little confused. I wondered how a theatre housed in a pub could work, I worried Shakespeare's masterful Macbeth would not fare well i…
It is an unusual classroom where Thomas Hardy is recited alongside Bette Davis, where Nietzsche is debated to the sounds of George Formby, and French grammar is practised in an imaginary bro…
Noel Coward left a lasting legacy on British theatre, and his mastery of drama, emotion and romance are seen clearly in Volcano, a play never performed during his lifetime. The play offers p…
Trevor Tinsley is bored. He's itching for excitement, he wants change and he wants it now. Stagnating in a shop with no customers and struggling with a spouse with no libido, he dreams of se…
Canadian performer Jeff Achtem's Swamp Juice (presented by Bunk Puppets and Scamp Theatre) is a celebration of the bizarre and unheeded imagination. Achtem is entertaining as he blends origi…
Antic Disposition conjures up Shakespeare's old favourite A Midsummer Night's Dream in an enigmatic and enchanting display of colour, creativity and charm. Middle Temple Hall proves a wonder…
