Winner of the Fringe First Award in 2012, Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna’s Edinburgh Festival hit, Dirty Great Love Story returns to the stage, this time at the Arts Theatre London.
2017 marks 5 years since the concept of the Vaults Festival was brought to life. Fastly becoming 1 of the go to festivals to experience in the UK, The Vaults is a meeting of minds, a celebration of new ideas, vision, discussion, creativity and boundary pushing.
It’s July 2016 and a plane crash has devastated the residents of Fulham. Who is responsible for thousands being hurt and numerous civilians losing their lives? The answer is unclear. The quest for the answer becomes BU21‘s underlying driving force.
Courtesy of Trafalgar Studios.
No two relationships are the same. They are incredibly complicated, and can be quite unpredictable. Fiona Doyle‘s Abigail examines this idea and places the relationship between a woman in her 20s and a man in his 40s under the microscope.
Stephen Mottram’s Animata is part of the London International Mime Festival, the festival concludes in early February and is in its 40th year. Mottram creates two pieces, the first at around 40 minutes and the other to finish at around 10 minutes. Both animations intelligently combine art and science to produce extremely thought-provoking works.
Courtesy of David Fisher.
Kloe has been dancing with Boy Blue Entertainment for the last 10 years. She is an established artist within the Hip Hop dance scene. Her work has been showcased at numerous dance platforms such as Move It London and Breakin’ Convention. Kloe Set up her dance company Myself UK Dance when she was 18 and has continued to push her female performers.
Courtesy of The Barbican.
Newly Qualified Freelance Drama Therapist Alex Ioannou speaks to Theatrefullstop about the job role.
What is great about theatre is that it serves multiple purposes: education, entertainment, inspiration, idealism, catharsis… the list is endless. Theatre is an important asset socially, not just to passively watch, but also, to actively part take in. Drama Therapy is a strand of drama coined over 100 years ago (Psychodrama) having been refined and developed in the 1970s. Newly trained freelance Drama Therapist Alex Ioannou talks more about the job role.
Verdi’s opera La Traviata premiered at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on the 6th of March 1853. It was not a success, but since that time it has become one of the most-performed and best-loved of all operas.
Courtesy of the Royal Opera House.
Boy Blue first burst onto the scene in 2007 with Pied Piper but they have been grafting since they were in 6th form together in East London, maturing into an important part of the community and nurturing the young talent with their many dance programmes. They are one of the UK’s leading Hip Hop dance companies and they continue to grow.
In this week’s podcast, Theatrefullstop are joined by Actor’s Awareness founder Tom Stocks. Ranjit Bolt’s (OBE) limericks are debuted and performed at the end of the show by Maylee Fraser and Iqbal Elyas.
