48 stories by "Senne Vercouteren"
It’s panto season, so get ready for singing along, holding hands with the stranger next to you and lots of “boooo!”-ing from the audience " all of which your reviewer duly …
Based on the international classic by Kenneth Grahame, this Royal Opera House production (moving into a West End venue once again) was first performed in 2002 and Will Tuckett’s choreo…
Seen at the Edinburgh Fringe earlier this year, Back Door tells a story similar to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. Now set in Paris, Tabitha (Laura Louise Baker) and John (Polis Loizou…
Another musical revival in the wake of British classics Evita and Cats comes from the other side of the Pond. Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, first performed in 1990, has opened at the M…
A memorial in south London: the familiar sight of a bunch of letters, candles, flowers and postcards marking a crime scene. Young and homeless Sam (Amy Cornwell) has chosen the spot to beg "…
A psychiatric prison in the USSR, 1978. We’re on an island and see dissident author Gavriil (Graeme McKnight), a Ukrainian convict, in the interrogation room with Doctor Yurchak (Matth…
As part of the Gate’s season of ‘compelling, complex female protagonists’ (Who Does She Think She Is?), Chimera is a transfer from New York’s Public Theater. Written …
The 1999 Mark O’Rowe play Howie the Rookie was written as a two-hander, but the writer decided on a different version not long ago, which is now at the Barbican’s Pit for a limit…
Company Chameleon has it all: in not much more than an hour, the cast do virtually all the styles of dance to the widest variety of music. The six men explore the idea of what it is to…
After winning a Fringe First at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, The Collector is at the Arcola for a week showing off its critical treatment of the war in Iraq. Henry Naylor has written …
American company Burning Coal revives three of David Edgar’s plays on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Your reviewer saw The Prisoner’s Dilemma; the other …
“Everything bad is real.” Moe (Sean Rigby) the security guard appears to give the audience a clue, somewhere in the second half of this mind-bending drama. Set in an apocalyptic …
In truly modern fashion, pianist Owen (Philip Honeywell) is a data entry clerk while girlfriend Holly (EJ Martin) urges him to then at least do some weddings. Owen cannot physically touch a …
Marion Banning (Janet Suzman) lives alone, in the South African middle of nowhere. Not in town, not in the township. She writes to her daughter, who lives in Australia, lengthy letters that …
Verbatim theatre and recorded delivery, made famous through Alecky Blythe’s London Road (2011) and more recently Little Revolution is a way of telling real people’s stories with …
Visible Ensemble was founded out of a frustration with the lack of serious roles for older actors. At some point, so it seems, you’ll only be cast as silly old grandma or friendly elde…
Edgar Allan Poe could not be absent during this year’s London Horror Festival, and in Gimcrack Productions’ debut his short story The Fall of the House of Usher is the basis for …
When it was first performed in 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals stirred controversy over its portrayal of Irish characters and a disastrous opening performance. Sheridan re…
The Scottsboro Boys were a group of nine black boys travelling through Alabama in 1931, pulled from their train, falsely accused of rape and convicted to the electric chair. The trial, which…
Now that gay marriage is legal in the UK, while in Russia matters only seem to get worse, the Hen and Chickens this week presents a double bill inspired by these developments. One is To Be a…
Boy Blue Entertainment’s The Five & The Prophecy of Prana, attempts, like its title, to invoke an elaborate theatrical world drawn from manga comics and films " the show even inclu…
Charlie Conlon (Joseph Begley) and Jake Quinn (Niall Bishop) are thirty-something, unemployed and live in a small Irish town in County Kerry where Hollywood has just landed to shoot a rural …
There was bound to be a play about phone hacking. But Richard Bean’s new work (like his previous hit One Man, Two Guvnors, a National Theatre transfer) takes on the holy trinity of …
Igor and Moreno’s Idiot-Syncrasy begins with the two standing side by side, wearing colourful and ill-fitting rain jackets and sports shoes "Â a far cry from the designed and often m…
Forbidden Broadway, the musical aiming to spoof all others, has been in existence since 1982 and its latest incarnation (transferred from the Menier Chocolate Factory, direction by Phillip G…
