With just one onstage performer and a great many ideas, Shallowspace proves that ambitious science-fiction theatre doesn’t need a blockbuster budget. Shallowspace I love small theatre productions with big ambitions. And what can be bigger than a timespan of thousands of years, an archive of humanity floating through space, pulled off with a single actor […]
In When We Were Us, new writing from Jade Winters at the Jack Studio Theatre, four friends meet for the first time in a long while, each bringing their own assumptions about what has changed, and what might still be left unsaid. Please Note: spoilers below.Content Warning: discussion of domestic abuse and coercive control. When […]
In Trace of the Forgotten, writer-director Gabriela Torres Gil brings together live performance and digital media to explore what happens when memory, migration, and identity begin to blur. Trace of the Forgotten This week marked my second visit to Theatre Deli, which remains one of the more imaginative uses I’ve seen for an empty office […]
Suppliants of Syria is not just a play but an evening-long event, using Aeschylus’s ancient tragedy as a starting point for a discussion about asylum, testimony and hospitality today. Suppliants of Syria Like most of the (I imagine) fairly self-selecting audience for Border Crossings’ Suppliants of Syria, I arrived with an open mind – both […]
If you’ve ever wondered what happens after the “loveless landslide”, The Red Prince has a fairly bleak answer. The Red Prince Well. The story of a beleaguered and disillusioned Labour MP in Bolton – how timely. The Red Prince, a production by Nice New Tie on now at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre, is a […]
Four years on from the start of the war in Ukraine, The Village Where No One Suffers at the Jack Studio Theatre offers a look at what it means to leave – and what it means to return. The Village Where No One Suffers It’s strange to think the war in Ukraine began four years […]
At North London’s Park Theatre, Patrick Marber’s After Miss Julie revisits August Strindberg’s classic drama through the lens of post-war Britain. After Miss Julie August Strindberg’s Miss Julie still seems to intrigue audiences more than a century after its debut. At North London’s Park Theatre we see it through the lens of After Miss Julie […]
MILES. at the Southwark Playhouse feels less like a conventional play and more like a piece of live jazz, with all the unpredictability that implies. MILES. I was thinking, as I watched MILES. at the Southwark Playhouse Borough, about a pre-show talk I once went to by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. I’m not […]
Monstering the Rocketman at the Arcola Theatre takes on 1980s tabloid journalism through the lens of Elton John and The Sun. Monstering the Rocketman I briefly considered sprinkling this review with Elton John puns. It’s easily done, and I’ve seen it work elsewhere in writing about Henry Naylor’s one-man show Monstering the Rocketman, now at […]
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley brings a landmark 1965 Cambridge Union Society debate to Wilton’s Music Hall, and proves that it still has plenty to say. Note: this post uses outdated terminology in a historic context. Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley I love Wilton’s Music Hall for the possibilities its space and programming embody. In the past […]
