Being in love is a great thing. Relationships require compromise, often left to let slide habits you’d otherwise find irritating or despise. Relationships offer a great basis for comedy; the everyday a series of either overt or subtle comedic highlights. Award winning comedian Archie Maddocks explores this in his latest stand up piece, IlluminArchie at the Soho Theatre.
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Relativity, probability, possibility, certainty, knowledge, fame, selfhood. All of these interweave in the Arcola’s revival of Terry Johnson’s play. It’s an overwhelming collision of ideas that fares best when considering ideas of bodily autonomy and identity set against the fierce, faceless consumption of celebrity.
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Le Gateau Chocolat, always a favourite at the Soho Theatre, is back in their downstairs space for a limited ‘encore’ run of Icons, a disco-pop explosion come auto-biographic memoir. A true cabaret legend with CV highlights that include The National Theatre, The Globe and The Sydney Opera house, Icons offers us a glimpse into the person behind the persona.
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From Thursday 9th to Friday 10th November, Chanje Kunda will bring her latest show, Superposition to Stratford Circus Arts Centre. A one woman show exploring female eroticism, a fusion of movement and poetry looks to challenge the commodification of women’s eroticism.
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It’s not easy to know what to expect from Kate O’Donnell: You’ve Changed before stepping into the theatre. It is, undoubtedly, an unusual show with an unequivocal and self-explanatory title. Transgender actress Kate O’Donnell grabs the audience’s attention right from the start and takes them – with a giggle here and there – through the challenging stages of her transitioning, accurately describing the numerous steps which such a substantial change entails.
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When do we officially become adults? Well, according to law, in the UK it’s at aged 18 however this changes dependent on where you live in the world. On a biological level, adulthood is reached from roughly our early 20s to mid 30s. Surely the age in which adulthood is reached should be clear cut? However, there are different schools of thought explaining when it is they believe we reach this stage in our lives.
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Hungarian born director David Marton started out as a musician for stage directors like Frank Castorf and Christoph Marthaler before developing projects of his own. Moving freely between theatre and opera, Marton’s production His Fairy Queen, oder hätte ich Glenn Gould nicht kennen gelernt (The Fairy-Queen, or hadn’t I met Glenn Gould), after Henry Purcell, was invited to the Zurich Theater Spektakel festival in 2006 and the Impulse festival in 2007. In 2009, the theatre magazine Die Deutsche Bühne chose David Marton as Opera Director of the Year for his production Don Giovanni. Keine Pause (Don Giovanni. No Break). In 2015/16 David Marton founded the Opera House of the Kammerspiele and directed La Sonnambula and Figaros Hochzeit.
From Friday 24th until Saturday 30th December, Liwaa Yazji’s Goats will make its debut at the Royal Court Theatre. Initially performed as a stage reading which was a part of As Told From the Inside: Stories from Syria and Lebanon last year, the topical play is translated by Katherine Halls and directed by Royal Court Associate Director Hamish Pirie.
Above and Beyond is a fun-filled interactive family show. Aimed at 5-11 year olds, it is all about the children getting involved.
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The age-old tale of Rumpelstiltskin has been reinvented and presented beautifully by balletLORENT. The tale for this piece is retold by poet Carol Ann Duffy, it is told in a simplistic way to allow the dance to complete the tale and ensure the young audience know what is going on. You know a family show is getting it right when you don’t hear all the children around you fire constant questions at their parents about what’s happening.
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