81 stories by "Ruby-Isla Cera-Marle"
The Love Project is the product of a series of interviews with people from a wide variety of age brackets and pockets of society, quizzed on their attitudes towards love. The small cast of f…
The Vault Festival allowed me to fulfil my long held fantasy of wanting to disappear down a rabbit hole to escape from the bustling metropolis. For six weeks the vaults tucked away beneath W…
Following his box office success with the Bond film Skyfall and his recent stage adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sam Mendes really is the director with the Midas touch. Natu…
Don Gil of the Green Breeches is one of three plays that makes up the Arcola Theatre's Spanish Golden Age season. The piece is rife with characters donning multiple disguises, repeated ca…
The Sherman brothers provided the soundtrack to much of my childhood. Songwriting duo Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman penned the scores for Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book and Chitty …
Theatre Delicatessen is currently in residence at the former BBC studios – a disused building in Marylebone that many people would walk past without even a second glance. However, Amer…
On his ninth birthday, Gwyn Griffiths is given a wooden box by his whimsical grandmother Nain and told he must use the contents of the box to discover if he has inherited his ancestor's gift…
Georges Bizet's Carmen is a much-loved and highly emotive tale whose score is so recognisable that it transcends the opera itself, with popular arias such as ‘Habanera’ and the &…
A set that falls down, countless missed cues, and an accident-prone cast. You would be forgiven for thinking that these calamities were merely symptomatic of staging a press night on Friday …
The very idea of trying to create an original Christmas story seems like an impossibility: surely every festive trope and possible cliché has been exhausted by now. Or so I thought, until I…
A cow sold at market, some magic beans and a giant beanstalk. You don't have to be a detective to deduce that the Lyric Hammersmith's pantomime offering this year is Jack and the Beanstalk. …
The eponymous Lizzie Siddal was a seamstress by trade, but in her spare time she used to pose as a model for many Pre-Raphaelite painters such as Hunt, Rossetti and Millais. With her distinc…
If you keep your eyes peeled during the festive season amongst the touristy hustle and bustle of London's Covent Garden, you may just spot some familiar faces from Panto Land. For their late…
Scum! Pigs! Chavs! All terms that were hurled around to describe the looting that took place during the 2011 London riots. But how would you react if you discovered that one of the hooded fi…
Passing By is the tale of Simon and Toby, two young men whose chance encounter at a local cinema results in them having a one night stand. The next morning as they exchange awkward pleasantr…
[Contains spoilers.] Set in 1941, From Here To Eternity transports us to a Hawaiian island where American platoon 'G' Company are stationed. Based on a novel of the same title, the musical c…
Since its premiere in 1965, Kenneth Macmillan's Romeo and Juliet has been a staple of the Royal Ballet's repertoire. Although this much loved piece has been performed countless times, prior …
Billed as a Gothic farce, The Curse of Elizabeth Faulkner recounts the tale of James Faulkner, an Edwardian gentleman who seeks out an undertaker to help him exhume the corpse of his great-g…
In a basement in Shoreditch, a voice booms through my headphones instructing me to enter an unknown room. I am about to partake in Non Zero One's interactive piece: Hold Hands/Lock Horns (Fu…
Ben Lyons (Nicholas Day) lies in a New York hospital bed surrounded by his overbearing wife Rita (Isla Blair), his recovering alcoholic daughter Lisa (Charlotte Randle) and his gay son Curti…
Imagine a live autopsy, in which the surgeon attempts to surmise what the corpse on his operating table was like when he was alive. This forms the intriguing premise of Scott Payne and Simon…
This year's Guildhall School of Music & Drama graduate showcase is the Charles Strouse and Stephen Schwartz musical, Rags. Based on a novel by Joseph Stein, Rags follows a group of hopef…
There was an undeniable air of anticipation surrounding Broadway actor, musical director and all-round raconteur Seth Rudetsky's European première of his hit show, Deconstructing Broadwa…
Happy New is the tale of two brothers who, as children, were abandoned by their mother and forced to live like animals in a cramped chicken coop. Starved of all human interaction, Danny and …
Playing with Grown Ups centres around a couple in their late 30s, trying to adjust to their new roles as first time parents. Robert (Ben Caplan) takes to parenthood naturally, whereas Joanna…
