39 stories by "Tom Shore"
This Edinburgh Fringe transfer from production company Patch of Blue is a love story about the relationship between two childhood sweethearts: Scott and Jen. Director Alex Howarth has the…
Originally written in German, and award-winning, Abyss begins in an unnamed German city. Three friends start a campaign to find their friend Karla, whose disappearance has received little pr…
Entering into the black box space, we are met by three downtrodden figures. They sit crumpled, staring into space. There is little real set, bar a rarely-used hat stand. But the ceiling is l…
Over the past year, Sadler's Wells has been running an initiative called =dance ("equal dance") to promote disabled, deaf and inclusive dance work. Equation is a showcase of its highlights. …
Staged in the immersive Buenos Aires Coup Coup Club cabaret bar, These Trees are Made of Blood is a political piece that seeks to educate. I'm quite ashamed to say that I didn't know about t…
Sitting on four sides of a raised wooden platform, a blunt foot stamp kicks us into the action. Two rippled black athletes sit across from each other on wooden footstools, heads bent forward…
Play Mas sees Orange Tree Theatre take on a Trinidadian tailor's shop littered with fabric scraps and chalk-stencilled strips. Libby Watson's design also includes hand-painted adverts and ro…
Dreaming in Code is a pair of dance pieces by all-male dance company 2Faced Dance. Five dancers – Jason Boyle, Jack Humphrey, Chris Knight, Luke Rigg and Ed Warner – perform both…
LOVE tells the story a man who posts an unusual personal ad: he is seeking someone to make love to him firstly, but then to kill and finally eat him. Petar Miloshevski plays both 'X', the co…
It is unusual to see King Lear and leave feeling that it is a play for the zone two roles. But that is exactly how I felt after seeing The Malachites' production. One of Shakespeare's greate…
Andrew Maddock’s Cyprus Sunsets is the latest installment in The Me Plays, and tells the story of Me who is journeying back to a Cyprus holiday resort solo in order to cure his heartac…
Gesundheit! by Van Huynh Company is a multi-discipline production that unfolds around three characters: a female and two males. The first (Dam Van Huynh – also the choreographer) is wi…
Theatre Ad Infinitum’s Light is a post-Snowden piece that sets out to predict how technological advances in surveillance will affect our lives. It centres around the invention of a bra…
Over the course of an hour, Elena Voce Siriani and Saskia Marland of the Urban Foxes Collective guide you first to the cultish 'Altar of the Self', before taking a microscope to how young ad…
