A Pleasance Theatre double bill of Oh My Pain, My Beautiful Pain! and Acid’s Reign, two very different productions as part of Relish Theatre’s Regeneration Season which nonetheless add up to an exhilarating evening of hard-hitting themes wrapped in inventive drag and cabaret packages. A Double Bill at the Pleasance Theatre, London It’s been a […]
Migrant-led theatre company Maria Who? take on immigration and hostile environments in their debut production, Miss Brexit. Miss Brexit It’s been a while since I’ve been to the Omnibus Theatre. Time flies when you’re having fun, I suppose. But I was very pleased, last night, to have the opportunity to return and see Miss Brexit, […]
The Silk Road (or Roads) is an interesting topic which seems to speak to the current Zeitgeist. But unless you love being part of a long queue, you’re better off reading the catalogue than coming to the British Museum. Silk Roads: Part of the Zeitgeist? Back in November I shared my experience of seeing A […]
The premise is interesting, the works are good, the presentation isn’t bad. So what was I missing at Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence c. 1504? Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence c. 1504 You’re going to be putting up with a few more last minute reviews in the coming weeks, I’m afraid. There was Hew Locke at the […]
A well-structured exhibition at the British Library, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words brings to life the evidence for women’s contributions to the private, public and religious spheres of medieval life. At the British Library Once More After an absence of a couple of years, I have visited the British Library twice in recent months […]
Alexander Raptotasios’s new adaptation Antigone [on strike] brings this classic tale forward into the age of social media, globalised geopolitics, and real time democracy. Antigone [on strike] As I’m sure I’ve said on the blog before, the classics are classics for a reason. It’s astounding the way that certain stories from the ancient world continue […]
Blending artefacts and contemporary art, Hew Locke interrogates the archives and stores of the British Museum in order to ask timely and important questions about museums and their relationship to power, history-telling and colonialism. Hew Locke: what have we here? The Salterton Arts Review has been a little preoccupied in January, and so it was […]
Talawa have the perfect antidote to winter blues with the infectiously vibrant and exuberant Play On!, gracing London on the final stop on tour. Play On! Two nights at the theatre, for two such different shows! Yesterday we had an evening of juggling and magic at The Place, as we were treated to Gandini Juggling’s […]
A clever and eye-catching multidisciplinary performance, Heka is at the rich intersection between juggling and magic. Juggling, Magic and Ancient Egypt And just like that, MimeLondon comes to a close for another year. Or does for me, at least: there are a few final shows on tonight and tomorrow (including Heka). Heka is the third […]
Italian company Dewey Dell take on Stravinsky’s famous work The Rite of Spring in a production that takes direct inspiration from the animal kingdom. The Rite of Spring Today’s post is the second of three from the 2025 edition of MimeLondon. Moby Dick was the first production we saw from this ever-interesting curatorial project: although […]
