What do you do if your mother’s boyfriend is the same age as you? Described as ‘un peu shocking’, Noël Coward’s youthful drama was a huge success at its premiere. The relationship between the decadent, drug-addicted Nicky Lancaster and his flamboyant mother, Florence, still packs an extraordinary punch. We have found this show reviewed on X websites [...] Read more »
1001 Nights
Forced to leave her home in the Middle East, young Shahrazad lives with her father in London, far away from the home she once knew. Using everyday objects, the bookish Shahrazad transports her friend and father night after night to an imagined world of kings, viziers, and jinns. These fantastical flights of fantasy help them make [...] 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 »
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 »
Olga’s room
Communist. Jew. Revolutionary. Lover. Mother. Olga’s Room is a woman’s searing struggle for survival as she clings to her disintegrating sense of self. Based on the real life of 1930s freedom fighter Olga Benario and her incarceration in Brazil and Germany, this gripping play was the first work by one of Germany’s foremost contemporary dramatists, Dea [...] Read more »
Fuerzabruta
Fuerzabruta, the show that took London by storm and re-opened the Roundhouse in 2006 is back by popular demand for a strictly limited four-week run, from 27 December. Featuring mind-blowing visual effects that must be seen to be believed – the iconic image of a man bursting full throttle through a series of moving walls, an [...] Read more »
No Picnic Review
I’m not going to tell you much about this as anything said will be a spoiler. Suffice to say that it is sort of a fairytale for adults. There are teddy bears, the like of which you probably will not have encountered, who get involved in things that you definitely will not have connected with [...] Read more »