Christopher Walker reviews The Homecoming
This is a dark, disturbing play. It inverts our most scared beliefs. Home, family, motherhood. And leaves the poor theatre goer battered and bruised.
Read MoreThis is a dark, disturbing play. It inverts our most scared beliefs. Home, family, motherhood. And leaves the poor theatre goer battered and bruised.
Read MoreWritten by award-winning writer and composer Vikki Stone and directed by Tonderai Munyevu, this outrageous twist on the classic fairy tale sees Tilly La Belle Yengo leading the cast as Cinderella in her Lyric stage debut.
Read MoreEvery Christmas season, dance genius Matthew Bourne, treats us to a new spectacular production at Sadler’s Wells. This year we have Edward Scissorhands.
Read MoreOne of those pop ups is its traditional Christmas panto, and this year the team offer us Puss in Boots at the Wonderville venue in Haymarket.
Read MoreThanks to the ever innovative team at the Menier Chocolate Factory and their collaboration with Osaka’s Umeda Arts Theater we are treated to a new production in Southwark.
Read MoreThe Orange Tree is dedicated to “rediscovering the plays of the past,” something much neglected at present. And his revival of Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer fits this mission well.
Read MoreIt’s nearly that time of year again – panto season is just around the corner and South London proudly plays host to some corkers this year, writes Paloma Lacy.
Read MoreRoald Dahl’s Witches delivers what every child adores. Something just frightening enough to tantalise and thrill, without putting them off a good night’s sleep.
Read MoreA new British musical from writers Not every hit requires a big budget or a starry cast. Jim Barne and Kit Buchan has opened at the Kiln Theatre and it is quite fabulous.
Read MoreThe Royal Court Theatre’s new production of Mates in Chelsea, by Rory Mullarkey, starts well enough. We are introduced to Viscount Theodore “Tuggy” Bungay in his Chelsea pad, and his madcap life of hangovers and love trysts, and….well little else.
Read More‘Backstairs Billy,’ as he became known, was a heavy pourer and a serial trickster. When a dreary party for veterans’ widows was flagging he spiced the teapot with a bottle of whisky. It turned into a rave.
Read MoreThere are 50 paintings, executed over an eighteen month period during which the artist Phoebe Dickinson travelled around Britain and captured many of the nation’s most iconic houses and gardens in a fresh, intimate light.
Read MoreIn times of unrest, it is common for our storytellers to focus on the major players, telling stories of astonishing bravery, of unspeakable atrocity, of power politicians and international strategists.
Read MoreThe smash hit show Only Fools and Horses The Musical is hitting the road in 2024 and 2025 for a major tour of the UK.
Read MoreMaggie O’Farrell’s best-selling book Hamnet sought to ‘correct’ this shortfall, and to explore the way his great play Hamlet was a sorrowful hymn to his recently lost child, Hamnet.
Read MoreFounded over 30 years ago and now based at the Albany Theatre in Deptford, Kali Theatre offers unique opportunities in new theatre writing for women of South Asian descent.
Read MoreAs the Diva lies on her death bed in Paris, she ponders her own mortality and how heroines approached death in seven of her greatest roles. This is the vehicle for seven contemporary divas to perform seven great areas, or rather six and one makeweight.
Read MoreAs Lord Somerset, Connor Finch successfully brings out the tragedy for contemporary gays, though only in passing is the scandal’s central role in gay history considered.
Read MoreAlexander Zeldin’s new play at the Southbank’s Lyttleton theatre chronicles his mother’s life and is inspired by conversations with her and her friends. I just hope a lot of it is made up.
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