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 »
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 »
Metamorphosis
Adapted and directed by David Farr and Gísli Örn Garðarsson A LYRIC HAMMERSMITH AND VESTURPORT THEATRE PRODUCTION On the 100th anniversary of the story’s original publication, David Farr and Gísli Örn Garðarsson’s spectacular reinvention of a literary masterpiece returns to the Lyric Hammersmith for a limited time following sell-out runs in 2006 and 2008. We have found this [...] Read more »
Forbidden Review
‘Forbidden’ works on the premise that there are some subjects that are taboo in story telling, some notions better left unsaid, some fears that shouldn’t be woken. Unsurprisingly the show unearths incestual passion, precocious birth, starved madness, sexualised mutations and misdirected good intentions. The flighty ascent to Soho’s highest performance space prompted tuts and ‘not another [...] Read more »
Sauce For The Goose
Lucienne is being pursued by the married Pontagnac ? who is astounded to discover that she is already married to his friend Vatelin, and also has an admirer called Redillon. Lucienne has sworn to be faithful as long as her husband remains so, too. But then a keen old ?indiscretion? of her husband?s unexpectedly arrives, [...] Read more »
Midnight’s Pumpkin
Don’t miss the chance to go to a party you will never forget in Kneehigh’s wild and wonderful take on Cinderella. With a guest list that includes an evil step-mother, ugly sisters and Prince Charming, you are in for a night of mischievous magic all before the clock strikes 12. So grab your dancing shoes and [...] Read more »
The Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights is written by Mary Zimmerman, adapted from The Book Of The Thousand Nights and One Night and is directed by Lu Kemp. The Arabian Nights runs at the Tricycle Theatre from 30 November until 12 January with press night on 6 December. Design is by Ben Stones, with lighting by Richard Howell, [...] Read more »
