Written and performed by Victoria Rigby, Girl From Nowhere follows the journey of Jeannie, a small-town girl who has dreams of escaping her wholesome roots for the excitement of the 1960s rock n’roll scene. Her story is told as a tape recorder confession from the bedroom of her childhood home, though why she is living at home and who the message is for are facts not revealed until the concluding minutes of the show.
The stage is set, a night at Winston’s Nightclub featuring platform stages, pendant lights and a draped glitter curtain, all alluding to the revolutionary century of the 1970’s. A girl enters taking her place on the stage, we ponder upon this beauty as the lights arise, its show time. Beautifully presented for Underbelly Edinburgh Fringe, Camilla Whitehill impresses audiences with her award winning play Where Do Little Birds Go?
Creatively presented for Underbelly Edinburgh, Lost Sock Company engages with its new writing, current interpretation of the sporting industry whilst analysing the concept of fulfilling your individual hopes and dreams. This production of Tether written by Isley Lynn is both realistic, creative and visually engaging.
Awe striking imagery, original compositions and breath-taking movement sequences all play a part in this absurd yet conversational piece. Theatre Re present Blinds Man’s Song a physical theatre performance, incorporating elements of Brecht, often denoting an essence of the incredulous and impossible. This wonderfully balanced yet whole hearted production enchants and engages, embodying every fragment of one’s imagination. This production embodies a heart of the fantastical, alluding to the character of the Blind Man, two masked performers, one piano, one violin, a high-tech sound system and one very malleable bed.
As part of the Grimeborn Festival at the Arcola Theatre, Fulham Opera presents Verdi’s final opera in a modern version with Keel Watson as Sir John Falstaff. The independent opera company usually produces large scale works in the intimate space of St. John’s Church in Fulham.
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This year, legendary artist David Bryne is curating Meltdown. He cued his intentions to showcase experiment and the most avant-garde aspects of contemporary culture by appointing one of the first slots to Bianca Casady and the C.I.A.
Toby Peach is reciting his own eulogy. Or rather he is reciting his own anti-eulogy, a refusal to give in to the threat of cancer and a celebration of his life. This is a deeply personal show, written and performed by Toby himself about his experience of being diagnosed with the disease as a young man. Strange then that I came away feeling slightly frustrated, having expected to have a more emotional response to what is on the face of it a moving story of survival.
How to review a play that dictates reality so thoroughly on its own terms? Marsha: A girl Who Does Bad Things invites us into a claustrophobic world where logic does not obtain and reason has no purchase. In so doing, the operetta offers a palpable experience of mental disturbance and some rather oblique insights into the topic…It also offers, a headache to any reviewer trying to describe the experience!
For an onlooker to observe a piece of art and to recognise the artist at the blink of an eye is testament to that artists contribution to their field. The Persistance of Memory is notably, if not Salvador Dali‘s most famous work, a portrait depicting a number of melting clocks in a barren landscape renders a series of question marks. The man behind the portrait is celebrated for his contribution to the surrealist movement, however many may not be as aware about his wife and muse, Gala Dali.
Rebounding Hail is full of original ideas and an entertaining narrative. Telling the story of a girl living through fiction, Disparat Theatre’s debut show is a unique and timeless tale.
