31 stories by "Mimi Launder"
A bare bum is on stage in less than ten seconds into Matthew Compling's play, Abominations. Not an inappropriate start for an edgy-sounding production that whisks up dark comedy, Christian h…
There is no theatrical experience quite like Light. And that's not just because Theatre Ad Infinitum's latest offering is a rich, fascinating dystopian thriller with a terrifying totalitaria…
"A big amalgamation of thoughts and ideas and dreams," says writer and director George Mann when I ask him the origin of Light, Theatre Ad Infinitum's dystopian piece returning to London thi…
The Wasp starts innocently enough: a cafe, chamomile tea and two women who have lost contact since school. But then cash is slammed on the table along with a shady business proposition, and …
A miniature, golden and glittering town has cropped up in the artsdepot's Studio Theatre this Christmas. This is the Land of Lights by Oily Cart, a delightful, immersive adventure for under …
Daniel Vale of the make-believe Daniel Vale Theatre Company gleefully boasts that his cast of four will play the 70,000 characters of Ben Hur with historical accuracy. Even if you don't know…
Charity and theatre company The Big House enables care leavers to create theatre. Telling the fascinating, surprising history of Rio Cinema in the immersive Electric, the theatre company has…
A recording of female breath breezes over a lightly-pounding beat. Pages from Fifty Shades of Grey flutter to the floor as a serious, eerily calm Hannah Silva tears them with her teeth. Silv…
A recording of female breath breezes over a lightly-pounding beat. Pages from Fifty Shades of Grey flutter to the floor as a serious, eerily calm Hannah Silva tears them with her. Silva eyes…
A musical crafted as a patchwork of stories from Dr Mel Hughes's The Parents' Story Project, which documents the lives of parents affected by substance abuse, Score tells tales that have bee…
The Vaults is where the magic-cum-terror show Master of the Macabre chooses to house its horror. There are not many venues more suited to hosting the first solo stage performance of Benedict…
Theatre503 and Sheer Drop Theatre's Valhalla has a lot going for it. Not only did it storm past over 1600 other submissions to become the joint winner of the Theatre503 Playwriting Award, it…
For a play with such an elegant, poetic title as The Love of the Fireflies (El amor de las luciernagas), I perhaps expected a little less swearing. But, if nothing else, The Love of the Fire…
For a play that frankly and often discusses STIs, including HIV, it is perhaps appropriate that the creative team encourages the audience to be sexually healthy. Thankfully, the ticket for 5…
I have mixed feeling about Nobody's Business " mostly bad. Promising to be a satirical, comedic look at sticky EU regulations, entrepreneurship and ideas, Nobody's Business deflates to revea…
Daniel Goldman is in the CASA Festival's office when he answers my call: "I better get out of here! They've heard it all before. Must know it off by heart." But, as the interview progresses,…
Mouthful is a relentlessly harrowing reminder that humanity is getting it dangerously wrong. Upon entering, we are cheerily told there will be an opportunity to eat cricket at the interval; …
"She is absolutely adorable, lovely… She wants to help," is Christopher Oram's verdict on Nicole Kidman. Not that I've met many, but anyone who can make any personal comment on Kidman " an…
Spiegeltent may be old-style, but the pop up venue holds its own at the feet of Canary Wharf's glittering skyscrapers. Not a face of it isn't colourfully painted. Inside, carved wooden poles…
"The breathing gets heavier and more frantic, like a dinosaur is sitting on Santa and tickling him at the same time. Finally, as it all crescendos, TINY COOPER comes into the world…" And s…
A motherless monkey, a scruffy giant, a fish with a big imagination and a wise old man " Scamp Theatre's Tiddler and Other Terrific Tales stitches together Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler…
Family mysteries, a looming wedding and way too much wine is never going to be a match made in heaven. Taken in Marriage by Thomas Babe is a clash of personalities: two generations of sister…
What goes well with a beautifully crafted, relevant interrogation of the twisted acts that humanity performs in the name of religion? A pile of human waste, crude jokes and a demon with a Co…
Image by Greg Veit "Why did you choose to perform an all-female Shakespeare?" a radio interviewer asked The Flanagan Collective, a York-based theatre company described by its artistic direct…
Photo by Jonathan Keenan For an anarchic theatre company who excel in inventive, fantastical devised pieces, performing the 1920s classic The Ghost Train might seem a mad next move. But …
