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!
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.
Throughout history there’s been an us/them divide in regards to Royalty and society. A mystique, a controlled narrative dictated by artworks and carefully edited soundbites and written resources. Subika Anwar-Khan chips down at this carefully constructed facade to delight audiences with Princess Sophia Duleep Singh’s Story.
The Almeida’s new staging of Hamlet is set in contemporary Denmark. The set is flanked with TV screens and looping news broadcasts, the spectre of media saturation possibly suggesting an overlap between Shakespeare’s cloistered, paranoiac courts and modern society, where we too submit to the relentless scrutiny of strangers. Despite the flashy revamp, however, Robert Icke’s production feels relatively conservative, dutifully adapting the source material and making few cuts to the text.