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Providence at the Vault Festival is a masterclass in physical comedy and the performers perfectly throw the weird life of HP Lovecraft into sharp, comic relief.
'What I feel is unique about this war play is that it takes a perspective from characters that are usually ignored or sidelined in the classic First World War narratives.'
Got your tickets yet for the world premiere of Philip Ridley's new gender-neutral collection of ANGRY monologues? Chronicles of Narnia's Georgie Henley and award-winning West End musical sta…
In Jen Silverman's play Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties, staged at the Southwark Playhouse, there are five characters who all have the same name, but are different as can be.
There's a strong current of emotional truth running through the storms in Henry Darke's debut play, Booby's Bay, at the Finborough Theatre. Perhaps less comic than it should be, and certainl…
A Girl in School Uniform (Walks Into a Bar) at the New Diorama Theatre may appear like a simple, dystopian thriller on the surface, but the commentary about life as a woman, and how people c…
So how on earth do greedy producers justify their obscene top ticket prices? Last week we heard that the best tickets for Hamilton are now £250 each. Okay, so I know you can sit elsewhere…
Anton Chekhov's 1899 short story The Girl with a Dog has been reset to the Jazz Age in a new adaptation by Mark Giesser, which comes next month to London's White Bear Theatre.
There is no option of falling asleep because if you aren't being shoved around as if on a rush hour tube then gunfire is constantly going off. Being in the pit is an intensely exciting and q…
If you’ve been down to this year’s VAULT Festival already, you must have spotted the van parked just outside the main entrance in Leake Street – but have you been inside? T…
This warm-hearted tribute to Ken Campbell offers a good dose of nostalgia for those who remember his work " but can feel slightly self-indulgent towards the end.
Imagining a time in the near future when mankind's environmental misdeeds catch up with 'him', that's the focus of Cat Loud: To The End Of The World at the Vault Festival.
The Vault Festival can certainly be hit and miss, but Say Something Happened has failed trying to comment on any of the themes it addresses.
Having been embraced upon the world stage, Priscilla Queen of the Desert makes a welcome return home for a tenth-anniversary victory lap of Australia.
It takes a biographical slant on the novelist's life, focusing on the apparent sparseness of her romantic affairs and how, if at all, this impacted on the richness of her writing, concerned …
A low coffee table sits before us, its woodgrain perpendicular to that of the boarded stage, laid with a glass mug diagonally sandwiched between an upright sugar cuboid in one corner and a b…
Surrounded by those with seated tickets and lorded over by scene after scene of masterclasses in the craft, the cheap seats in the pit for Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre are without dou…
The Grift at the Town Hall Hotel, Bethnal Green aims to stimulate your competitiveness, creativity and sense of purpose, and it definitely succeeds.
Dave Malloy's score is quite simply astounding. Beginning with a sole accordion, in the early stages it all sounds quite traditional and very recognisably Russian (without straying into ster…
On the eve of the centenary of Muriel Spark's birth, the Usher Hall was packed for Muriel Spark: Creme de la Creme, an evening of readings, reminiscences and a performed reading of the Edinb…
Sleeping Beauty follows the well-loved fairytale of good triumphing over evil, Princess Aurora is cursed by the evil fairy Carabosse then saved by the good Lilac Fairy and a Prince. Peter Wr…
Much like Stanley Kubrick's oeuvre, the importance of humanity in A Lesson From Auschwitz is emphasised by the negation of it. The play, understandably, can't be said to be 'enjoyable', but …
Manipulate Festival is back and its performance side got off to a smashing start with two hugely inventive and darkly comic shows which both use toys as puppets: Song of the Goat and Plastic…
My verdict? A smart new play that's about people as much as profits, some very funny moments as well as thought-provoking ones " an excellent production all round.
Terry Johnson's Ken serves as a nice introduction to Ken Campbell or for those that knew him it's a reminder of the impact his work had on many performers, writers and directors, but he dese…
