Abdelwahab, a one-off performance at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, explores the music and legacy of father of modern Egyptian music Mohamed Abdelwahab. Abdelwahab at Theatre Royal Drury Lane I had a wonderfully London-y day on Sunday. I went to the National Gallery and saw highlights from the Kröller-Müller Collection (post coming soon). Followed by […]
Crownless puts a new spin on Hamlet, incorporating text from the original and from feminist writers. Clever and fast-paced, this is a worthwhile watch. Crownless I’ve written previously about how I feel I’ve seen enough Hamlets now. He is paralysed by inaction. He’s not nice to Ophelia (or pretty much anyone). We get it.* This […]
Duccio Baldasseroni invites us right into the psyche of a “professional actor and writer” in SOLO. SOLO SOLO is a somewhat idiosyncratic piece, but I found myself drawn to it. On now at the Barons Court Theatre as part of Voila! Theatre Festival, it sits in a space between theatre and exercise, where the performer […]
Precipice is an ambitious, musically inventive new musical that, despite some limitations, tackles the end of the world with more honesty, humour and humanity than you’d expect from a two-hour show set in a Greenwich tower block. Precipice Precipice is a bold and heartfelt new musical from Timelapse, supported by New Diorama Theatre. One of […]
Threepenny Collective mine a dark story from history in L’Indiscipline, making its English-language debut as part of Voila! Theatre Festival. Content warning: discusses historic treatment of mental illness, including outdated practices and terms. L’Indiscipline Sometimes you don’t have to depart too far from reality to conjure up a story that seems stranger than fiction. That’s […]
Sophia Griffin’s After Sunday explores healing and harm in a medium-secure hospital’s weekly Caribbean cooking group. After Sunday I’m not sure that the saying ‘the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach’ quite flies in this day and age. Smacks a bit of traditional gender roles. But I would argue that the way […]
Aimed at those with a deep interest in the mysteries of the world or the macabre, Dark Secrets can be fun as long as you take it for what it is. Dark Secrets It’s funny sometimes going back to a place you’ve known in a previous iteration. I felt that way when I saw this […]
Curating asks us to consider what the choices we make (or don’t) will mean to us once time’s run out. Curating Do we have some sort of innate fear, in the modern age, that the afterlife will involve paperwork? It’s certainly an idea that comes up from time to time in film and theatre. In […]
The V&A’s Design and Disability is an ambitious and necessary exhibition that places disabled creativity and design at the centre of museum culture, exploring how accessibility, innovation and identity intersect Design and Disability I recently had the opportunity to visit the V&A’s Design and Disability exhibition. It is an interesting one, marking a shift in […]
Infinite Space Theatre bring a healthy dose of Edwardian horror to the Hope Theatre, with their adaptation of The Monkey’s Paw. Content warning: discusses bereavement and baby loss. The Monkey’s Paw As I was away from London for Halloween, I hope you’ll allow me a last spooky theatre review for the season. Because when I […]
