18 stories by "Elinor Walpole"
The Rose Theatre's performance space is an intimate balcony that looks out over the archaeological remains of the original Rose, home of many of Shakespeare and Marlowe's plays back in the s…
Don Carlos at the Blue Elephant was a very special and beautiful piece of work. A simple set consisting of a blacked-out space with a bronze diamond painted centre stage, and a perpetual bla…
Red Line Productions’ “exhilarating new interpretation” of Howard Barker's series of short plays, The Possibilities, was, in fact, exhausting. The opening playlet was Th…
Make and Bake's double bill of Southern dramas begins with a light-hearted look at dating and the modern Southern Belle in Horton Foote's Blind Date. In the programme for the double bill, th…
 Mixed Marriage is an intense and claustrophobic play set solely in one location; the living room of Protestant family the Raineys. The head of the family, John Rainey (Daragh O'Malley),…
Last week I took part in my first-ever panel discussion, at Theatre Royal Stratford East. The discussion took place after the performance of A Clockwork Orange (which I was seeing for the se…
Settling into our seats at The Bromley Churchill Theatre my companion and I turned to one another and remarked “This is nice, isn't it?” admiring the beautiful set and the impres…
“To Machiavellian Capitalism- Boo Ya! Boo Ya! Boo Ya!” A Clockwork Orange at Theatre Royal Stratford East was a brave and bold retelling of Anthony Burgess's seminal novel set in…
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is one of my favourite novels, and so I was apprehensive about whether this play version would deliver the story that I loved with as much understated trage…
The Quick opens with a heart-stopping cacophony of shrieks, shouts and loud banging. As the lights reveal the stage we are looking into a prison cell with a tiny, wiry woman with cropped hai…
Beauty is Prison Time is a one-woman show written by and starring Zoe Mavroudi, directed by Terra Vandergaw. Mavroudi takes us on an emotional journey with her as she talks of her life 'out'…
The Phoenix Artist's Club is a delightful little dungeon just off Charing Cross Road. Inside, the walls are entirely covered with theatrical memorabilia – masks, posters, props, signed…
What It Feels Like, is Encompass Productions’Â professional debut, just about to set off to Edinburgh Festival. The show got off to a shaky start, with the actors taking a little whi…
Common Sounds: Enter The Void was an evening of performances and installations that responded to the architecture, purpose and current condition of decay of the former Commonwealth Institute…
As the audience entered the intimate theatre space of the Rosemary Branch Theatre, a hidden gem atop a quaint pub full of stuffed stoats and model airplanes, the air was filled with the kind…
Hand Me Down at the Tristan Bates Theatre is a compelling, one-woman show, co-created by Steve Gilroy and Kate Craddock, who performed the piece. Rarely have I come away from a theatre show …
Wo(Men) and Me comprised two dance performances that played with conceptions of gender identity and the idea of the perfect body, choreographed and performed by Tonny A, Nick Smith and Jean …
I was quite surprised to attend the Comedy Showcase and find not only that a fairly large section of the audience were of school age, but also that rather a lot of them knew one another. It …
