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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
A Clockwork Orange
The breathtaking all-male version of A Clockwork Orange makes its London debut following its five-star, sell-out Edinburgh run in. This electrifying and testosterone-filled physical theatre horrorshow exquisitely captures and transcends the spirit of Anthony Burgess’ original literary masterpiece, 50 years on from its publication. We have found this show reviewed on a number of websites and [...] 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 »
Sports Play Review
This particular representation of Jelinek’s iconic script was not a full production, it was a script reading. I did not know it was going to be a simple reading before going and I was kind of disappointed when I found out. When I entered the Soho Theatre’s upstairs space I was instantly smiling, there was a [...] Read more »
Knightwatch Review
It all seemed too hopeful. I mean, it’s set in a southeast London council estate, where local gang the Knights are involved in a deadly drug war with their rivals. Yet the pacifistic protagonist Michael is a budding sculptor who gets chummy with a rival gang member when she asks him to teach her carpentry? [...] Read more »
The Burglar Who Failed & Dutchmen Review
Having never been to The Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond and hearing nothing but good things about it, I was quite excited to have the pleasure of going to this magical and mysterious place, right on the outskirts of London. As part of their 40th birthday celebrations, the night comprised of three performances – “The Burglar Who Failed”, “Return [...] Read more »
