And now it's back for a three-week run in its home venue. Following highly acclaimed, sell-out performances in Dublin, New York, Sydney and Edinburgh, Peter Darney's verbatim drama returns w…
Tokyo; Rome; Paris; London, Sarah Tullamore sure gets around. After 22 years living in Paris, she has decided to up sticks again, to who knows where. She's a "Woman Of A Certain Age" without…
verything Jamie Lloyd touches seems to turn to gold, the current Midas of the directing world. A long-standing partnership with designer Soutra Gilmour is certainly one of the reasons that h…
It's Not Yet Midnight is devised to highlight the success of collaboration and the danger of trying to accomplish everything solo. Working together, the acrobats build towers four people tal…
Simone Tani, one of the founders of Teatro Pomodoro, must be completely shattered. Speaking to me over Skype, he has just become a father and is also trying to finalise bringing the company'…
Everything Jamie Lloyd touches seems to turn to gold, the current Midas of the directing world. A long-standing partnership with designer Soutra Gilmour is certainly one of the reasons that …
New writing evenings are very popular in London, so it's always interesting to hear about one with a bit of a difference. Monorogue brings writers and actors that work together to create the…
If It's Not Yet Midnight comes across as a complete mess, may there be more chaos in the world. This is a show that may look slapdash, messy and at times dangerously close to falling apart, …
Finders Keepers is a biblically-inspired story with a modern update " Mr Pharaoh (Clare-Louise English) and Daughter (Jo Sargeant) have their simple lives interrupted when a baby is abandone…
The start of Am I Pretty? feels like an academic exercise " the premise is to convey a set of situations surrounding cosmetic surgery by utilising the jazz musical form as a framework to str…
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Miss Nightingale storms the stage to start the show just as it ends " with energy, enthusiasm and a patriotic desire to support the troops. Unfortunately, these kinds of scenes are often whe…
The premise of a jewellery heist, the glitz and glamour of living in the shadows, is enticing " a fictional world that promises escapism, freedom and taking control. Certainly Sophie (Oni) h…
Omnibus artistic director (and director for Spring Offensive) Marie McCarthy sits the actors and the writer around a table as part of the second rehearsal of Omnibus Associate Artist Victori…
David Henry Hwang's Chinglish looks at the crossover between the Westernised and Chinese cultures, both in business, in marriage and in dedication to one's partner. For all it promotes itsel…
A Door In A Wall started with this style of treasure hunt format and quickly grew to become one of London's foremost in immersive puzzle solving. Director Tom Williams and a group of friends…
Dark comedy thriller, Sublime, is the first of three works currently in development by new writer Sarah Thomas. It plays in April at Tristan Bates Theatre, the central London theatre attache…
A quote by Naguib Mahfouz resonates with Ellams' story, "Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease". Ellams and his tightknit family are constantly att…
A modern master of the 'play within in a play', Bertolt Brecht's epic theatre piece The Caucasian Chalk Circle is as relevant a political commentary today as it was in the 1940s.
It isn't particularly high brow or Shakespearean, but Francesca Goodridge ekes out the laughs from the saccharine material and innuendo comedy.
Music and theatre have always held a close, interlinking relationship " as performance arts, it could be argued that one is incomplete without the other. Both are emotive, structured and abl…
Rave culture is not the typical setting for Romeo & Juliet. An abandoned warehouse; double denim and tracksuits; being slipped acid in the middle of a mosh pit. But this is a story abou…
The Chemsex Monologues is not a poster production " it does not preach of the dangers that this ever-growing scene is obviously intimately entwined with, nor does it paint a rosy picture of …
It feels fictional but never absurdist, outlandish but never untenable. Andrea's (Emily Thornton) situation is shocking and slightly outrageous, but is ultimately believable. Philip Ridley a…
To mark the occasion, Younis and executive director, Jon Gilchrist, invited friends, family and collaborators to cut the ribbon and open the theatre doors once again. The message was clear "…