15 stories by "Sarah Sharp"
After the blistering run of Blasted last month, the Crucible Theatre continues (and sadly concludes) its Sarah Kane season this week with alternate nights of Crave and 4.48Â Psychosis. Bot…
Based on the Slavic folklore of the child-eater Baba Yaga, Wrong Crowd’s Hag is a chilling, all-consuming watch. At the heart of the play is the behemoth figure of Babe Yaga herself, h…
Roll up, roll up! The circus is in town and it’s here for your delectation and delight. The flamboyant Dr Longitude " fittingly styled for the occasion " has roamed the globe in search…
“Ben Moor has been producing extraordinary works of theatre since 1993″. Thus we are introduced in the festival programme. It’s a bold statement at best. When weighing up a…
As Pop Up Opera takes its work into schools for the first time, founder Clem Lovell talks to Sarah Sharp Ah, opera " the everyman theatre. Of all the performative arts, opera, surely is the …
Ebullient, exuberant and bursting with energy, the cast of The Miller's Tale fills its stage from the start and transports you to a world of colour, noise and nefarious goings on. Transplant…
B.O.X. is a peculiar piece from NineSidedBox, a new theatre company from Harvard University. This is their first production and shows a group still very much in development, still finding th…
Although it gets off to a shaky start, Maria 1968 is a whimsical silly meta-theatrical delight. The laughs are loud, frequent and absurd. If the opening feels a little too much like an episo…
Sarah Sharp chats to John Binkley, who, inspired by real events in France, wrote this banking crisis fairytale.
All dolled up for its adoring public, Cabaret Nova brings us a smorgasbord showcase of the wonderful delicacies it has to offer in its new abode. It was a bit of a hotchpotch for opening nig…
Members of the buoyant and ebullient C Theatre are on call every lunchtime to bring you the next installment in their completely improvised soap opera made daily by you, the audience. Silly …
All male, all female; all singing, all dancing; modern, vintage, Marxist, minimalist " Shakespeare’s been done every which way there is. Every way but drunk. Until now. Members of the …
Anon(ymous) is the tale of a refugee teenager, on the run from a war-torn country and searching for a home he can no longer define, whose sense he lost long ago. Shipwrecked on the illegal c…
A man dies in a café. His cellphone continues to ring. His only companion is a solitary diner who never spoke a word to him before his death. She talks to the corpse, takes his calls, and s…
Sarah Sharp interviews the director of the first play written in response to the massacre on Utøya Island by Anders Breivik.
