103 stories by "Veronica Aloess"
Mule is a fast-paced two-hander inspired by the story of the Peru Two, two British girls convicted of attempting to smuggle cocaine into Peru in 2013. Writer and Director Kat Woods' retellin…
Unfaithful written by playwright Owen McAfferty follows two couples. Tom (Sean Campion) and Joan (Niamh Cusack) are middle-aged, conservative and wondering if they let life pass them by. …
Pretty Ugly started as YouTube experiment, questioning the growing trend of young girls posting videos asking the online community to rate them based on their looks. In her show, Louise Orwi…
Cartography is a story about Sarah, a girl who loves maps (although she never intends to go travelling), who has her eyes opened and eventually her heart broken by John, a budding explorer. …
Image: Phil Crow Lincoln Castle is home to one of four surviving copies of the Magna Carta, a document which is generally recognised as the foundation of constitutional democracy and the sou…
Seven years on from the 7/7 bombings, Damien Tracey has written Warde Street, a play which considers the lasting effects of the tragedy on politics, religion and relationships. Unfortunately…
Epoch: 1950 takes the incredibly cool spaces at The Vaults and transports the audience back to the 1950s. This unique theatre experience offers three short plays from three different comp…
Veronica Aloess interviews Susanna Narvaez and Patrick Maubert about a new site-specific productions around Blackfriars in London. Another Day is a play rooted in its setting " playwrights h…
First off, Paines Plough and Northern Stage's new space, the Roundabout Auditorium, is a thing of beauty. Essentially, this 'flat pack' theatre can be packed onto the back of a lorry to tran…
First thing's first: Verdi's opera Otello holds up a mirror to Shakespeare's text, a distilled reflection of the action and not the Bard's brilliant writing. Nonetheless, Verdi lets his rich…
I can hear this production of Julius Caesar before I can see it. As I walk up to the Globe it rings with music, and inside actors are already milling about, shouting and singing, echoing wha…
Do you remember the first time you went to the Globe? Did you feel like you were stepping back in time? What I remember is some kids rapping about how I needed to switch off my phone… …
Adler & Gibb is an interesting one. True to playwright (and director) Tim Crouch's style, he plays with the theatrical form in innovative ways you probably haven't seen the likes of befo…
For 7th Magpies Theatre Company, "the play is always the point of departure." Dramaturg Ash Rowbin explains how it will be devising around Shakespeare's original text Julius Caesar,Â�…
When I was invited to a double bill of plays, I expected two short one acts. Oh no. Fourth Monkey's Shizaru Season at Jackson's Lane is essentially the showcase for their two-year actor trai…
Titus Andronicus is one of my favourite works of Shakespeare. The reason why can be encapsulated in this fact: apparently, five people fainted watching the original play. Titus Andr…
Henry V is performed by final year students at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, yet it's safe to say that the quality rivals that of a professional production. It's a brave play to s…
…or, as the show's performer and writer Michelle Roche prefers to say, with eight mad old people. This statement is a reflection of the problem of perspective within this show; the phr…
After almost a year together, MGC Futures has come a long way. If you remember that this company was first and foremost formed in order to educate young people in the jobs behind the scenes.…
There's something of a fad at the Soho Theatre Upstairs for producing bitesize plays: hour long shows, usually monologues or duologues, which provide a concentrated perspective on the world.…
Blanche McIntyre is the director behind Ciphers, a play by rising talent Dawn King, and a co-production with the esteemed companies Out of Joint, Bush Theatre and Exeter Northcott Theatre. C…
The Soho Downstairs is the best place for a gig like this: with a bar that stays open throughout the show, the laughs keep flowing and the intimate room feels so packed that it's still got s…
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a play by Bertolt Brecht that went down a storm as part of the Chichester Festival and as a result has transferred to the West End. It's not your usual We…
Ché Walker's new play The Lightning Child is a contemporary response to Euripides's The Bacchae. You've got to be brave to essentially translate an Ancient Greek play into everyday langu…
When you step into Temple Studios it takes a while for your eyes to adjust to the dark, and as you wait for an actor to jump out as you peer around corners, it feels more like you’ve s…
