A Midsummer Night’s Dream is currently showing at the Young Vic Theatre until Saturday 1st April. For more information, visit here…
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is currently showing at the Young Vic Theatre until Saturday 1st April. For more information, visit here…
‘A rose, by any other name would still be as sweet’… Director Amy Leach’s modern retelling of this timeless love story may have kept the name, but this dazzling reinterpretation challenges everything we think we know about Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, casting off the shackles of tradition and throwing its audience head first into an intense, passionate and touching tale of turmoil and true love.
As He for She Arts Week begins and women all over the world are celebrated today, The Orange Tree Theatre have put on a ‘deliciously silly’ (Alice Saville, Time Out) performance to promote feminism and celebrate Girl Power!
Chinglish: a blend of Chinese and English, in particular a variety of English used by speakers of Chinese, incorporating some Chinese vocabulary or constructions. Tony Award winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist David Henry Hwang highlights this social and cultural phenomena in his immediate piece of the same name. Andrew Keates directs, marking the play’s European premiere.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is currently touring the UK and Ireland. Based on the novel by Mark Haddon, it follows Christopher Boone, a fifteen year old boy trying to work out who murdered his neighbour, Mrs Shears’ dog. I was lucky enough to see the opening performance at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury.
We now find ourselves living in an era where race relations has become a crucial topic to discuss. Injustices that have taken place due to race are now being recorded and are sending shockwaves through worldwide media. We no longer live in a time where we wait for the latest headlines via the news or physical publications, rather we ourselves break news, with the click of a button in a matter of seconds becoming viral. The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin although set in the 60s, 70s and 80s taps into today’s consciousness.
Four decades after opening on Broadway, Dreamgirls has finally come to London. This highly anticipated revival depends entirely on finding not just an exceptionally talented, convincing vocalist but a powerhouse star to play Effie: they certainly found that in Amber Riley.
Beauty is but skin deep, ugly lies the bone. Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own.
– Albert Einstein
Lindsey Ferrentino‘s play about a severely wounded war veteran attempting to put together a new life confronts an important issue with honesty and compassion. Ugly Lies the Bone premiered in New York in 2015 and marks Ferrentino’s UK debut.
StrongBack Productions with Tara Arts put together this production ‘inspired by true events in the lives of Jamaicans who fought in World War One. The narrative takes place in a dusty rum bar in Kingston, The Western Front Jamaica, Egypt, Italy and Oxford.