384 stories by "Daniel Perks"
The pine tree design by Camilla Clarke provides a subtle serenity, juxtaposing the trauma of war in Bad Roads " a series of sparsely connected stories by Natal'ya Vorozhbit around her home c…
This cabaret-style show has energy, passion and emotion in spades. It's not a slick production; it doesn't shine with bells and whistles, or a complex, sharply written narrative with intertw…
Neil Gore's retelling of this story is one equally full of passion and guts; one which honours and pays homage to a poignant moment in socialist history.
Three Mothers, each with three stories; three relationships with their children; three reflections on their sense of belonging, of home " more specifically, on migration.
Terry Johnson's Insignificance didn't happen, but it could have done, such is his attention to detail and understanding of the characters' intrinsic behavioural patterns.
"Kept separate by the chasm of the centuries": Daniel Perks reviews Elizabeth Kuti's trio of detached monologues set on the Suffolk Coast at Finsbury Park's Park Theatre.
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Tryst: A private, romantic rendezvous between two lovers, conducted with no one else's knowledge. Perhaps they wouldn't approve, perhaps they would recognise the affair for what it is " a pr…
Written and directed by Hamza Mohsin, The Ends features a cast and crew of emerging, culturally diverse artists from a working class background, the majority of whom have been plucked from w…
It all feels like a childish game, a competition as to who can impress the other the most. Joanne (Tessie Orange-Turner) is in charge, the alpha female that demands attention and uses playgr…
Kieran Knowles' insightful show focusses not on those who moan about the loss of life, but on those whose job it is to clean it up, remove all trace and get the railways up and running again.
Joseph Barnes Phillips launches into a monologue with gusto, transitioning between numerous characters in a portrayal of love and loss on a personal level.
Nick Lane's adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Gothic tale is well suited to the stage " The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde is expanded to provide more substantial anci…
The Toxic Avenger is certainly a stylised, kitsch, cult musical " takis' set and costumes paint a vivid picture of a luminously dystopian New Jersey (or is it reality?), overrun with toxic w…
It pauses awkwardly yet intentionally, peppered with sharp, monosyllabic grunts and statements of the obvious. The feeling is fresh and new, exactly the reputation that the Royal Court has g…
"A piece of eloquent controversy": Daniel Perks analyses the London transfer of What Shadows, Chris Hannan's kaleidoscopic interrogation of Enoch Powell.
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"When you get big school groups in, mass hysteria breaks out " they set each other off. It becomes a kind of white noise all the way through the show."
Scott Stroman's composition feels heavily influenced by Bernstein, particularly West Side Story. Indeed, Fever Pitch has a number of themes that coincide with the lovers Romeo & Juliet.
The Revlon Girl opens with an evocative soundscape in pitch black, the audience experiencing an impending sense of doom as the slurry of colliery waste slides down the hill and buries part o…
It has been three weeks since I left the bubble that is Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 to return to the much larger bubble that is London. And ironically, the manic, fast-paced lifestyle of …
As the ultimate experiment of the Turing Test, which examines whether a machine can exhibit behaviour indistinguishable from a human, The Test takes the concept of Artificial Intelligence to…
Jack Rosenthal and Simon Block's script is a keen observation on how this ordeal takes over the lives of those trying to master it, in a time when knowledge of The Knowledge was at its peak.
To chop Mozart's The Magic Flute down into two hours, with an interval; to translate it entirely into English; to set it in a modern-day nightclub-style setting, are all brave moves by Opera…
The recent production of Jim Cartwrwight's Road at the Royal Court made for unmissible viewing " a blindingly relevant show that gives expression to the inhabitants of an unnamed northern r…
Five minutes into a combination of John Patrick Shanley's purposeful script with Chè Walker's acute eye and we are transported.
It's the end of the transfer window " Deadline Day. Tensions are running high as clubs, players and agents alike attempt to make the best of the opportunity to switch up their teams and exch…
