Hector Blavatsky is the architect of Blavatsky Tower and the top floor of this tower becomes a prison for him and his son and two daughters. The play shows the dysfunctional family whose only experience of the real world is television and the eldest daughter, Audrey, going to work and fetching supplies. Ingrid, the youngest daughter, was [...] Read more »
Bitch Boxer at the Soho Theatre
Bitch Boxer is a piece about a London teenage female boxer. She has fought many fights and with one more victory she can achieve the highest honour and compete at the Olympics in London 2012. The piece isn’t as much about boxing as it is about her adolescent circumstances, puppy love and the death of [...] Read more »
Lady Rizo at the Soho Theatre
I was excited to see Lady Rizo at the Soho Theatre, not because I knew of her work, but because of all the acclaim I had heard about her work. She is a cabaret singer who has quite an extensive track record in the US, her time at Soho Theatre is her London debut. Now, there [...] Read more »
Robert Lepage Playing Cards Part 1 Spades
Robert Lepage has been said to be the director of theatre for people who dislike the theatre. I find this opinion of his work does not hold water when discussing his most recent piece; Playing Cards. This piece is a die hard theatre lovers work; two and a half hours with no interval the play [...] Read more »
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Review
Simple8 turns a cult film into clever theatre at the Arcola. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the noted German silent horror film of 1920, which championed the art of cinematic expressionism and the collision of illusion and reality, has inspired this theatre company’s latest daring production. This stage rendition effectively deviates from the cinematic counterpart that [...] Read more »
Magic Flute Review
One would expect a witty and intelligent production from Kit Hesketh-Harvey following his Traviata last year and this doesn’t disappoint. The conceit here is that the autobiographical details of the end of Mozart’s life are interwoven with the plot, so that Mozart becomes Tamino, and Constanza Pamina. The dream-like nature of the performance growing out of [...] Read more »
Feast at the Young Vic
Feast is a musical play that guides the spectator through a journey of three sisters through times of suppression throughout history. It is a celebration of Black, Cuban, and Brasilian dance while at the same time the play interrogates the culture and strife of these people as the piece moves from the 1700s to today. [...] Read more »
Macbeth
Deep in the bloody fields of ancient Scotland, after the mist has cleared from a recent battle, a warrior Macbeth and his friend Banquo witness three witches prophesize the future. Macbeth will be King. Taking this information back to his beloved wife and knowing the King is due to feast at their home that very [...] Read more »
Mare Rider
In the maternity ward of a London Hospital, Selma is stuck between other people’s reality and her own. She’s visited by Elka from afar, who takes her on a fantastical journey of dreams and fears – stealing wine, meeting seahorses and mermaids, and riding mares across meadows. We have found this show reviewed on a number [...] Read more »
The Cabaret Voltaire Transfers
After a year of research and artistic residencies in Manchester and London – in which we explored with updating Dada techniques and put them in practice to create a theatrical play, durational performances and installation pieces in various venues – we have been invited to use the King’s Head Theatre piano and stage to once [...] Read more »
