222 stories by "Eleanor Turney"
(3/5 stars)Â Tap Tap Theatre has made a show of original stories, some of which follow familiar themes (seeing past appearances, for example) and some of which manage to find new things to…
(3/5 stars) Chalk Farm is half a take on last year’s London riots, and half an examination of a mother-and-son relationship. It does both well but never quite makes either soar, despit…
(3/5 stars) What starts off feeling like a self-indulgent take on a traditionally gothic Victorian ghost story gradually reveals itself to be a far more complex and multi-layered thing. Our …
(5/5 stars) The Wrong Crowd has taken the folk-tale, child-eating witch, Baba Yaga, and given her a voice. And what a voice. Laura Cairns plays Baba Yaga, with a sniffing, questing, monstrou…
(3/5) There’s a lot of whimsy floating around at the Edinburgh Fringe this year " I’ve seen three shows in the past two days that have "love" in the title. This isn’t neces…
(2/5 stars) For a show almost exclusively about sex and violence, L.O.V.E. manages to be surprisingly dull. It’s extremely well-choreographed, and the physical prowess of the performer…
(2/5) On the Beach is a whimsical, sweet-natured show that rather overstays its welcome. A one-man piece, where performer John Osborne tells us about a lunchtime walk on the beach, it’…
(4/5 stars) A bittersweet, tragicomic look at life, the universe and everything from one woman’s perspective, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s new show is a cracker. A hugely impressive ho…
(3/5 stars) It ain’t over til it’s over, as they say, and this is an apt summary of William Gaminara’s The Three Lions. Quite why anyone would want to dramatise the build-u…
(4/5 Stars) Love in the Past Participle is a gentle show, which wears its sometimes difficult subject matter lightly. As the title suggests, the piece explores relationships which have no…
(4/5 stars) Shit-faced Shakespeare does what it says on the tin. After its debut at the Fringe last year, Magnificent Bastard Productions is back, this year with its unique take on Much Ado …
(3/5 stars) A wide-eyed and charming Alice guides us through Wonderland with an endearing mix of petulance, bravery and wonder. Oxford University Drama Society‘s production of the famo…
My inner child " never far from the surface " was well and truly unleashed at Bristol Old Vic’s gloriously enjoyable The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Re-telling the tale of the bored boy shephe…
As she prepares to star in a self-penned new show at the Bush, Cush Jumbo talks to Eleanor Turney about the life of an actor, not being pigeon-holed and why female characters should be allow…
Written in 1894, George Bernard Shaw’s Candida is a play deeply rooted in its time, making it tough to stage a production that is palatable to a modern audience, dealing as it does wit…
Karl Kraus’s The Last Days of Mankind is famously said to be "unstagebale", so kudos to all involved in this production for actually getting the show onstage. It’s a rambling, un…
The Postcards Festival at Jacksons Lane, now in its third year, offers a huge range of circus and cabaret work. Artistic Director Adrian Berry and performer John van der Put (a.k.a Piff the …
We all know the story of Bluebeard, but this deeply unsettling version by Hattie Naylor is grimmer than Grimm and makes its audience uncomfortably complicit in its graphic descriptions of se…
The father-daughter relationship is heavily foregrounded in Jeremy Herrin’s extremley funny production of The Tempest. Continually shot-through with nostalgia and a tenderness that bel…
Incredibly difficult to watch, Belarus Free Theatre’s Trash Cuisine is a hard-hitting and haunting 90 minutes that will stay with you long after you leave the theatre. Introduced as "a…
This beautifully scattered shot and occasionally confusing piece presents a bleak and affecting portrait of mental illness, told through the eyes of the ill woman’s children. In a worl…
If you want to see lazy, offensive stereotypes of Thailand, head down to The Brewery to catch John Moran’s Goodbye Thailand. Not only is it an incredibly poorly-executed piece of perfo…
There’s a lot that’s wrong with the world, isn’t there? War, hunger, pain… the list goes on. I could list all the things that are wrong, but I won’t because it …
Not Until We Are Lost is a beautiful thing. Ockham’s Razor has created a delicate, comtemplative aerial show, which is a hymn to flight and the human body. Performers Alex Harvey, Tina…
Ever heard Grendel sing the blues? Seen an academic transform into a dragon? Or heard Beowulf describe himself as a sexy motherfucker? BBB’s unconventional Beowulf has all of this and …
