The Salterton Arts Review finally makes it to No Such Theatre’s monthly work-in-progress night The Scrap, and enjoys a mix of live music, Play Jams, and traditional scratch performances. No Such Theatre Presents: The Scrap OK, this post has been a long time coming. I was a bit horrified when I went back to my […]
With pink wings and a wicked sense of humour, Party Favour turns birthday entertainment into something far more revealing. Party Favour I went into Party Favour with a feeling of cautious optimism, something I tend to reserve for small-scale solo work. I’ve seen enough fringe experiments to know that “bold” can mean “proceed with caution”. […]
Sparks fly in the National Theatre’s production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, thanks to the chemistry between its leads. Les Liaisons Dangereuses What is it these days with the National Theatre? It can’t be that every play, if produced in a fitting manner, is naturally three hours long. So what gives? Unless it’s me? Maybe going […]
Secrets will out in Kit Withington’s Heart Wall, a drama which explores the cost of grief and silence. Heart Wall Heart Wall begins before it begins. As you enter, you’re invited to scan a QR code, add a karaoke song to the list and – if you’re feeling brave – perform it. It’s a generous, […]
Stereotypes about London’s Latinx community are well and truly subverted in heist caper-meets-identity politics piece My Uncle is Not Pablo Escobar. My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar If you are going to make space onstage for Latinx women in South East London, you might as well enjoy yourself. My Uncle is Not Pablo Escobar at […]
A chance reunion is not as accidental as it seems in The Dawn of Reckoning, a quietly unsettling two-hander that lets its secrets surface slowly over the course of a long night. The Dawn of Reckoning Director Matthew Parker is a dab hand at two-handers (see Trestle at the Jack Studio Theatre, which also featured […]
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 […]
