Dear film folk, I've never studied filmmaking. I barely know which end of a camera to do a selfie into. But being an actor who is in need of footage for a showreel, I read A LOT of casting b…
Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory usually does, well, Shakespeare, so to tackle Tom Stoppard’s contemporary play (first performed in 1993) as part of this year’s season is a bit…
A mixed bill is always going to have highs and lows, and although Kings of the Dance does have the odd less-successful moment, on the whole it is a triumph. Featuring Roberto Bolle, Marcelo …
Putting a four-and-a-half-hour, two-part adaptation of Jane Eyre on the main stage at Bristol Old Vic is a brave thing to do. Seeing both of them in one day is a bit of a slog (although not …
Glass House is not an easy play to write about. In its presentation at the Albany, Cardboard Citizens uses forum theatre techniques to explore Kate Tempest’s story of a fractured famil…
Sochi 2014Â is theatre-as-activism done to a very high standard. Tess Berry-Hart’s verbatim play takes interviews she conducted with Russian LGBT people and edits the results into a …
NEW WOLSEY YOUNG ASSOCIATES, THE WARDROBE ENSEMBLE AND KILL THE BEAST HEADLINE THE FIRST INCOMING FESTIVAL A Younger Theatre and New Diorama are delighted to announce the companies that will…
When the staff in the cloak room are humming the songs before you even get into the theatre, you know you’re in for a good show. Daniel Evans’s production of Oliver! is bursting …
Emerging theatre artists are being offered a chance to develop their work and to perform it as part of a Souk Festival in a new initiative from pop-up theatre company Theatre Delicatessen. S…
The Duck House can’t decide if it wants to be a satire, a farce, or both, and is consequently frustrating. Ben Miller is fun as Labour MP Robert Houston, who is planning to defect to t…
My nine-year-old companion enjoyed Alice in Wonderland rather more than I did, but with one of the Polka’s child-centric shows that is as it should be. I found the acting style very ch…
[Contains spoilers] The Hans Christensen Anderson version of The Little Mermaid is pretty unpleasant " our heroine feels like she’s walking on broken glass every time she steps on her …
What can be said about Little Bulb’s Christmas show for little people, except that it’s completely adorable and you should go and see it? It expertly treads the line between swee…
I managed to miss Sally Cookson’s production of Cinderella when it was in Bristol, despite living in Bath at the time. How great, then, to be able to catch it at the lovely Unicorn the…
I think most people will have read Bryony Kimmings’s angry and honest blog about money by now. If you haven’t, do. She has asked that other people join in the conversation, and w…
Every now and then something comes along on Twitter that gets everyone talking " and we're not referring to Miley Cyrus and her infamous twerking abilities! We're talking about Bryony Kimmin…
A mixed evening, this, with some moments of brilliance and some less successful ones. It’s always the risk you take with a mixed bill, that there will be parts one enjoys more than oth…
Timberlake Wertenbaker’s re-working of Sophocles’s tragedy places Ajax and his platoon firmly in the modern day with text messages, references to YouTube, IEDs. And yet, this …
So maybe watching The Avengers with its snappy one-liners and quite impressively muscled Thor wasn’t the best idea the night before seeing an Icelandic-influenced production of Macbeth…
Joe Armstrong (Gus) and Clive Wood (Ben) turn in solid performances in this production of Pinter’s short black comedy, but Jamie Glover’s directorial debut never quite achieves t…
Jordan Morris and Jesse Thorn present the successful podcast Jordan, Jesse, Go! which is free to download. Eleanor Turney caught up with them in Edinburgh to talk new financial models, findi…
Once again this August, we at Filskit Theatre have resisted the call of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and opted to stay put in London to start working on our next piece. However, thanks to s…
(4/5 stars) I like books. So, apparently, do the Idle Motion team, as they have themed this delicate, ephemeral production around books, blindness and Borges. The great Argentinian writer is…
Psst. You. Yeah, you. With the face. C'mere. I need to tell you a secret. Now, you can't tell anyone this, it would ruin me. No-one would ever take me seriously as an actor again, I'd be a t…
(4/5 stars) Somnambules and the 7 Deadly Sins is a piece that will stay with you long after the last notes of the epic soundscape have died away. Visceral and beautiful, powerful and tender,…