Darkly comic Dear Martin is an amusing “what if” about a budding friendship between a cuckolded husband and his wife’s erotic penpal, who is also a psychopath. Dear Martin It really is the curious premise that draws you into seeing a play, sometimes. Such was the case, for me, with Dear Martin by Madelaine Brettingham […]
Get it all off your chest during International Women’s Month by visiting Scream Along, a participatory installation in an unusual space in Deptford. Scream Along Last weekend was an excellent time for thought-provoking interactive experiences. On Saturday I saw Where We Meet, a dance theatre production combining technology and human connection. And on Sunday I […]
A revival of a play by Nick Payne, One Day When We Were Young is filled with the pathos of what could have been. One Day When We Were Young On a quiet Monday evening I made my way to North London’s Park Theatre, to see a play I thought would be a sombre but […]
Unwired Dance Theatre’s Where We Meet sees audiences interact in different ways with dancers and their inner monologues. Where We Meet In a strange way, this brief, 30 minute interactive dance theatre performance reminds me of the best things about the creative industries during the pandemic. A blending of technology and live performance elements to […]
Two very different London museums tell us a lot about how the dialogue around human remains in museums is evolving, at least in the UK. Content warning: this post inevitably deals with death and human remains. I have, however, made an effort not to show images/close-up images of human remains. I use the terms ‘human […]
Brimming with good humour and a generous spirit, Trestle brings a small Yorkshire village to off-West-End London. Trestle I happened to take my partner, who is from a small Yorkshire village, to this play set in a small Yorkshire village. And one of the things he was keen to have me know was the accuracy […]
Now this is more like it: the Royal Collection of Italian Renaissance drawings is on display in all its glory at the King’s Gallery, with plenty of detail about how these extraordinary works came to be. Drawing the Italian Renaissance Is this my final last minute exhibition review for the winter season? Perhaps. Unless I […]
Multidisciplinary artist Makiko Harris brings Needle Dance to an unexpected art space in East London, giving audiences the opportunity to explore her take on Japanese folklore, feminism, and fate. Needle Dance For those of you who will be in the Shoreditch/Old Street/Hoxton area of East London in the coming days, I have found you an […]
Rebecca Frecknall’s take on A Streetcar Named Desire is powerful and poised in all the right places. A Streetcar Named Desire London was once again a city of second chances yesterday, as I saw A Streetcar Named Desire at the Noël Coward Theatre, having missed the production’s original run at the Almeida. When I saw […]
A small but important new museum, Queer Britain tells the story of Britain’s Queer community through objects, archival materials and personal stories. Queer Britain One of the wonderful things about writing an arts and culture blog in London is the never-ending supply of things to write about. Not only new theatre programming and exhibitions, but […]
