I have spent the past forty-eight hours contemplating what to write about the production of Hamlet, I reviewed this past week. When I walk away from a production unmoved, I allow myself time to digest the production so that I might discern some grand meaning from it eventually. This production of one of my favorite Shakespearean [...] Read more »
Ten Out of Ten Review
I am back in a classroom. I am seventeen. I am wondering what I am going to do with my life and if I will amount to anything of note. I look back and ponder on how I did not have an aneurism or ulcer by the time I graduated at eighteen. I think about how [...] Read more »
Lucy and The Hawk Review
Ethereal and quaint are the two feelings I felt as I took my seat at the Upstairs theatre at the Ovalhouse. Ethereal because I felt as if I was being suspended in the clouds, but not the sort of clouds you see outside your window on a nice day in London. The clouds I was suspended [...] Read more »
Desire Under the Elms Review
A guitar is heard struming as a farm comes to life with the buzz of the world awakening. Transported from the Lyric Hammersmith, the audience is taken to the rural and remote farmland of New England where people move a bit slower and work the land till their bones grow weary with exertion. As the lights [...] Read more »
Holoclownsto Review-CASA Latino Festival
I learned about the CASA Latino Festival during the summer while searching the Ovalhouse website for their autumn season. As a Mexican-American living abroad in London I was quite excited at the opportunity to see Latino theatre. I was amazed by the sheer variety of Latino countries represented by this year’s bill for the CASA [...] Read more »
CASA Latino Festival-Ovalhouse
The Ovalhouse has been a centre for years now for artists who sit on the outer limits of society. It is a centre for actors, writers and directors whose work speaks to the marginal, the minority and the oft unheard. For an entire continent this little theatre in South London will be the stage that allows [...] Read more »
Rubies in The Attic Review
Tonight I travelled into my grandmother’s attic where I was met with four women whose siren-esque voices and impeccable style teleported me to the grand old 1940s. A time of great change in England with WWII at its doorstep. A time when music was used to tell story and ruby red slippers could take you [...] Read more »
Romeo and Juliet Review
When I was fourteen, fifteen, sixteen even, I don’t think I was that fearless. I think I was like a lot of other adolescents. I was awkward, unsure of myself and wary to try things that weren’t of the familiar or safe kind. I wish I had befriended people like those actors I saw this evening. [...] Read more »
Be Good Revolutionaries Review
Be Good Revolutionaries at the Ovalhouse theatre was the first ever production I had seen at this great South London art center that I found to be disappointing. Dirty Market was commissioned by the Ovalhouse to create this political drama that felt very much like a devised piece of theatre. Walking into the space, I was [...] Read more »
The Irish Giant Review
You enter The Vault at The Southwark Playhouse and instantly you are transplanted to another time, another London. It feels like the early 19th Century city that the Enlightenment knew so well. The conduit into this era is The Irish Giant. The cold air rising from the stone floor and the damp bricks keeping out any [...] Read more »
