Review: Romeo and Juliet
Grassroots Shakespeare London presents an effervescent and humorous interpretation of the famous romantic classic. As an original practices company, the production relies on collaborative di…
Grassroots Shakespeare London presents an effervescent and humorous interpretation of the famous romantic classic. As an original practices company, the production relies on collaborative di…
The Second Word from the Story of the Cage is touted as a site-specific work in a disused air raid shelter telling a story of "the selfishness of gender, race and class". The audience is mad…
An exciting project celebrating new writing and language of “honesty and boldness”, Let's Get Visceral does not disappoint in presenting the freshest and newest voices on the Lon…
Based on the Spanish absurdist drama Tu I Jo by Roger Simeon, PatrÃcia RodrÃguez & Mercè Ribot play a pair of elderly sisters cut off from the world in this trilingual adaptation.…
Suicide Letter Love Note is the debut comedy-drama of HeadShotInstantkill Productions, and is Writer/Director David Head's first play; approach this performance with these provisos in mind, …
Drawing from Jonathan Safran Foer's dreamy and evocative fiction extract The 6th Borough, the young circus company Collectif and then… has devised a fascinating, inventive and occasionally…
Nabokov present four short plays contemplating our relationship with money – what it stands for, what it motivates us to do, and how it affects our perceptions of ourselves and society…
Alfred Enoch and Joel Samuels star as psychologically damaged brothers in the UK premiere of Brendon Cowell's play. Described as "a dark Australian comedy with extra BBQ sauce", the themes o…
Up in Arms' staging of Winterreise is a fraught and evocative slow-burner. Schubert's song cycle, based on Wilhem Muller's poems, is lent an unusual dimension through puppetry and animat…
Gareth Jandrell's new play deftly and daringly tackles the issues and stigmas attached to mental illness. Winner of the Tobacco Factory's Script Space 2010, the writing is snappy and hum…
Alexander Pushkin's cautionary tale of avarice and deceit gets colourful treatment in this enjoyable adaptation by Fusebox Productions. This Queen of Spades dispenses with the spare, subtle …
It’s not often that you get the opportunity to catch a modern theatre production in the hallowed, majestic surroundings of St Giles’ Cripplegate. Ensconced in the Barbican, this …
The Company of Strangers is billed as a “surreal, dark comedy about lost dreams” centred around the titular strangers gathered at “life’s final outpost, the Restmore …
Luke Barne’s debut play is an entertaining, snappy two-hander lent a topical resonance by recent events. The London riots have brought to fore the issue of increasingly bored and frust…
Musical artistry meets ambition in this excellent staging of Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera. OperaUpClose embraces the intimate confines of the King’s Head Theatre. Orchestral …