18 stories by "Lori Hopkins"
An-Ting Chang and her company AT ConcertTheatre are pioneering a new genre of performance. The clue is in the name. In its own words, ConcertTheatre is ”a combination form of concer…
Misterman is a one-man show, the result of collaboration between multi-award-winning playwright Enda Walsh, and producing bodies Landmark Productions and Galway Arts Festival. A shining exam…
The Unicorn Theatre is hosting its brand new production of The Legend of Captain Crow's Teeth to lure in families over the Easter period. Don't expect yo ho ho and a bottle of rum; this …
The Blue Elephant is a small theatre with big ambitions, and with shows as engaging and daring as The Fantasist by Theatre Temoin and Compagnie Traversiere, it should have no trouble achievi…
Ockham's Razor first came to my attention for its exciting collaboration with Oily Cart Theatre Company in 2009. The project, Something in the Air, provided young people with physical disabi…
God/Head is less of a theatre performance and more a slightly odd practical therapy session in which the creator and primary performer of the show shares with the audience his deep and very …
Three thoughts I have never had whilst at the theatre: 1) Wouldn’t it be great if my unbrushed hair and spotty face could be projected via a live feed camera to a room full of stranger…
The wonderful Blue Elephant Theatre, Camberwell, is currently showing Mervyn Peake’s one and only play written for children, Noah's Ark. Peake, who taught at Camberwell College of Art,…
Writer Anupama Chandrasekhar's new adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's chilling tale, The Snow Queen, transports young protagonist, Gerda, (now called Gowri), to the heat and magic of In…
Twenty-five years ago a highly controversial and darkly powerful play about the social causes of violence was removed from the public eye. Edward Bond's seminal play, bravely revived by dire…
Purcell's The Fairy Queen is a lighthearted opera that uses text from an anonymous source based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The setting is nineteenth-century mental instituti…
Everybody loves a good seventeenth century farce full of slapstick silliness, men camping it up in tights, big-bosomed women deceiving the men and the occasional saucy romp. There is …
Bear Trap Theatre Company's Bound did something to me that no theatre performance has ever done before. It made me feel seasick. Now although this is not usually the feeling one might crave …
My expectations were high as I arrived at the Finborough Theatre for a mammoth theatre experience; a quartet of plays recommended in Lyn Gardner's 'What to See this Week' at a theatre venue …
Whilst thousands of my fellow theatre-going folk are lapping up the atmosphere of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I am unfortunately stuck in London missing out on the action. I did however h…
Richmond's Orange Tree Theatre runs a successful trainee director scheme, providing young, emerging directors with the opportunity to develop their skills in a professional environment. This…
Consenting Adults is Stagepunk Theatre's short-but-sweet whirlwind tour of sex. Split into two parts, played by the same team of three actors, we see first a girl coping with growing up, and…
Friday night and the foyer of the Theatre Royal was heaving with a truly diverse mix of people positively buzzing with excitement in anticipation of Takeaway, a new musical by Robert Lee and…
