48 stories by "Hannah Tookey"
ENO concludes its latest season of work with The Queen of Spades, an opera that's been dormant in their company for over 20 years. David Alden's staging of Tchaikovsky's opera as the delirio…
There's something strange about watching a production in which there are no fictional characters. Shows after which a quick Google search or snoop on social media could reveal more about the…
Discussions around rape culture have been building steadily over the last few years, with attitudes slowly changing. Rape culture is talked about actively and openly by groups such as Cuntry…
Towering over us and elegantly decked out by designer David Curtis-Ring in a full feather gown, Caroline Smith is the modesty-lacking part-bird, part-diva Rita. It is apparently a very real …
Each act of Daytona focuses on a dramatic revelation, and both are bursting with potential for discourse. Without revealing too much, the primary concept addressed focuses on what is morally…
Hats were thrown, people were swung and dance skills were tested at the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels digital press night. I haven't danced properly in well over two years no, so the prospect of s…
Headlong have created a vivid and energetic production of Anya Reiss' Spring Awakening. Fully updated from Frank Wedekind's 1891 text, it reflects on the lives of teenagers today through a h…
It's quite possible that there isn't a more apt location for Open Works Theatre and Look Left Look Right's production of Debris than the Little studio of the Southwark Playhouse. A skilful a…
This new revival of Irish writer Billy Roche's A Handful of Stars is a slick and pacey production that sees the cast breeze quickly through a smooth and straightforward text. It's the classi…
With rapidly increasing cuts to the arts it's perhaps quite surprising that the growing art form of puppet opera is now making a more regular appearance in children's theatres. As the luxury…
There's an omnipresent sense of danger lurking somewhere underneath the surface of Blister. The lighting, in its contrasting states of either a dim yellow or eye-achingly bright white is uns…
It's almost 40 years since Billy Hayes endured a gruelling and anxiety-inducing escape from Turkey's Imrali Island Prison. Yet even long after having successfully reclaimed his own freedom, …
The concept of a musical set on a submarine entitled Long, Hard and Full of Seamen is promising in itself. Surely there are endless jokes to be had and wildly entertaining plot twists to fol…
In an age where there is irrefutable evidence for science and an overwhelming urge to further knowledge, it seems almost imponderable that a mere few hundred years ago authorities shunned th…
Kali Theatre has flipped polygamy on its head with an insightful new production that delves into life in a fictional society where the fairer sex rule. In a world where polygamy is widely ac…
I Wish I Was Lonely is a layered and playfully experimental look at whether technology is drawing us closer, or pushing us further from the world around us. It's an interactive show wh…
Victoria Melody’s ability to laugh at herself is infectious. In an uplifting and welcoming show charting some of her slightly absurd life choices, Melody invites us to laugh with her a…
The 21st Century can be pretty scary and confusing. At times it feels like we are hurtling towards a more progressive society, one that embraces diversity and welcomes individual lifestyl…
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan is simply astounding. If there is another company that can transfix an audience in this way with its display of sheer strength and stamina, whilst summonin…
It may be just a muscle, albeit an incredibly important one, but the emotional significance of this vital organ is enough to drive the plot of Canadian writer Matthew Edison's sensitive and …
Middle-aged siblings Cory, Monroe and Ike can’t last more than half an hour in the same room together without one of them passing a snide comment. They are pretty much estranged and ha…
It’s been quite a while since a play has held me as captivated and enraptured from start to finish as Faction Theatre’s The Robbers did. Updated from Schiller’s classic Ger…
The plot of Noël Coward's Fallen Angels is blissfully simple. Two self-proclaimed 'happily' married wives have their faith in their loyalty to their husbands, and each other, shaken when …
The subtitle of the fabulously named Gay Naked Play is 'a satire on artistic compromise'. This satire is wonderful in its ability to mock all things show-business and the ferocious campness …
Fiji Land may have been groundbreaking at the time of its first reading in 2007, shortly after the Guantanamo Bay revelations. Seven years on, though, and a whole swathe of films, television…
