81 stories by "Ruby-Isla Cera-Marle"
What could be more apt than a production of Sweeney Todd that takes places in a pie shop? In an ingenious collaboration Tooting Arts Club has teamed up with Harrington's, one of Britain's ol…
In their teens two brothers, Ray and Dave Davies, rallied together two of their childhood friends Pete Quaife and Mike Avroy to form a band. Known then as The Ravens, these four young musici…
Amy is a hot-headed, feisty and wayward teenager who is failing at school, has fallen out with her lifelong best friend, and to complete her run of bad luck has just been kicked out of her f…
'It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile. Be yourself no matter what they say', is a lyric from ‘An Englishman in New York’, which Sting penned in homage to the inaugural de…
OperaUpClose really are the Ronseal of opera companies, as they do exactly what it says on the tin. By taking opera, an art form that is more commonly associated with being performed on larg…
Set in the deep south of Alabama, the year is 1847: it's a time of masters and slaves, racial inequality is rife and people are bought and sold on the basis of the colour of their skin. Dess…
It's the end of the world and the only known survivors are three colleagues on their way to a conference and a sixteen-year-old girl. Marooned on an island, we find Marie (Elizabeth Berringt…
In 1961, theatre director Joan Littlewood was frustrated by the limitations conventional theatres imposed on the way in which art could be depicted. Rebelling against the notion that creativ…
Imagine performing your end-of-year play on the prestigious Olivier stage at the National Theatre. As part of the Connections festival, over the past six days ten schools and youth groups ha…
Contrary to what the title of her one woman show suggests Pippa Winslow is so much more than 'just a housewife’. This sassy Californian with a mischievous glint in her eye, who toured …
US-born singer Ray Shell is perhaps best known in the world of musical theatre for creating the roll of Rusty, the main protagonist in the original production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's roller…
There aren’t many musicals that have an all-singing, all-dancing, carnivorous plant with an unquenchable thirst for human blood as one of its central characters. Consequently I have…
During her post-show talk, South African choreographer Dada Masilo commented "I like ballet, just not all the nonsense". Masilo's interpretation of the classic Swan Lake is a refreshing rete…
Jeeto Gill has spent her life working her fingers to the bone and making countless sacrifices for her two children. Widowed and now in her sixties, she is looking forward to returning to her…
At just 19-years-old Polly Stenham penned the award-winning gritty family drama That Face, which resulted in her being the toast of the Royal Court. Now, eight years on, Stenham's latest off…
In 1985 playwright, wordsmith and all-round Victorian dandy Oscar Wilde was sentenced to a two year stint in Reading Jail for being a homosexual – then considered a crime under the Gro…
“A beautiful city glitters during the day, but at night the rats emerge.” A former pillar of society is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a young boy from a di…
The musical Shellshock opens with a talkative young girl called Emily (Ana Martin) fit to burst with excitement at the prospect of her father, a soldier, returning from the front-line in Dho…
Somewhat overshadowed by the more seminal works in the cannon, Finian's Rainbow is a little-known musical first written and performed in 1947. In the fictional American state of Missituck…
A chance encounter wherein a young Czech girl asks an dejected Irish busker to fix her broken hoover seems like an unlikely starting point for a love story, let alone a musical. Surprisin…
Compagnie La Meute is a group of six acrobats premièring their work for the first time in the UK as part of the Roundhouse's Circus Fest. Combining humour, music and plenty of gasp-worth…
I only have to hear the phrase “lashings of ginger beer” and I am instantly transported back to a childhood spent reading Enid Blyton's ‘The Famous Five’ stories. Wit…
Chris Vervain Theatre's production of Euripides' Women of Troy paid homage to the Ancient Greek tradition of theatre performed in masks. As it was my first time seeing a piece that used this…
With flashing strobe lights, well-known tunes thumping and a cast of supremely talented street dancers, hip-hop dance company Blaze certainly know how to throw a party. The diverse group of …
This spring, Southwark Playhouse's studio theatre plays host to the UK première of Tracy Letts's play Superior Donuts. Dishevelled hippy Arthur Przybyszewski’s doughnut shop is str…
