Public tickets for the Olivier Awards 2022, which will take place on Sunday 10 April at the Royal Albert Hall, go on sale exclusively to Mastercard cardholders on Thursday 3 February, via Priceless.com.
Public tickets for the Olivier Awards 2022, which will take place on Sunday 10 April at the Royal Albert Hall, go on sale exclusively to Mastercard cardholders on Thursday 3 February, via Priceless.com.
It’s Tuesday night in The Pit and two bald, middle-aged French men are telling a story. In many ways it’s an old story: girl meets boy, falls in love, goes on an adventure in which they lose and then find one another again. In many more immediate ways, it is not. The man to my right, Romain Bermond, is etching a park boulevard with geometric detail in real-time. Opposite him, the man to my left, Jean-Baptiste Maillet, is playing a drum kit with one hand, space-rock synths with the other and a harmonica in-between. They are Stereoptik and Stellaire is a love-story mime. It is also set in space.
Seeking inspiration from Hans Christian Andersen’s 1844 classic fairytale The Snow Queen, Disney’s 2013 smash hit Frozen adapted by Jennifer Lee re-imagines the magical story of the eponymous figure in the form of Elsa, a Princess-turned Queen of fictional kingdom Arendelle. Adapted into a stage musical by popular demand, the production sparkles, reminding us all of the power of imagination.
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, launched in 1978, announces this year’s finalists. Awarded annually, the initiative celebrates women+ who have written works of outstanding quality for the English-speaking theatre. Women+ includes women, transgender, and non-binary playwrights. Each year, artistic directors and prominent professionals in the theatre are invited to submit plays. Each script receives multiple readings by members of an international reading committee that selects the finalists. An international panel of six judges then selects the winning play.
Our upbringings shape who we are, our localities central to how we navigate our lives. Now more than ever it is crucial, post pandemic to help build a brighter future. A future where multiple voices from various communities are platformed and heard. Uniting the nation, and addressing its colonial past, Artistic Director of Tamasha Theatre Fin Kennedy and Founder of Holy Mountain Boz Temple-Morris present The Waves, an audio drama series spanning the isle and highlighting the impact of the past within our present. Consisting of 5 audio dramas from some of the UK’s promising talent, The Waves has started to air weekly on Resonance Radio and 26 local radio stations. Fin and Boz tell us more about curating this very important series!
Shortly after accepting the invitation to the London International Mime Festival’s variety show Short & Sweet choreographed and curated by Thick & Tight, aka Daniel Hay-Gordon and Eleanor Perry, I panicked that I wasn’t qualified to review such a refined art form. But once I got over myself, the sincere grace of these joyful performers won me over with ease.
Based on the real-life event which took place 1 September 1939 Lewis and Freud come to a head in Freud’s study in Hampstead just weeks before Freud takes his own life. Freud’s Last Session by Mark St. Germain at the King’s Head Theatre tackles household giants and mammoth issues of religion, sex, and death with unflinching ambition.
Dealing with the intricacies of running a nation asks for an adept, rigorous, tenacious skillset and mindset. A role not to be taken lightly, imagine suddenly being catapulted into this complex reality. Exploring this further in show General Secretary, comedy duo Cassie Symes and Georgina Thomas place the experiences of two inexperienced leaders as they navigate their way through this new normal for them to the fore. Initially starting life out as a short live-streamed piece last year, before being shortlisted for a Funny Women Award – the work-in-progress’ next stop sees the show performed at the Soho Rising Festival, staged at the Soho Theatre next month. Ahead of the show, Cassie and Georgina tells us more about the show’s creative process so far, what it means to have been recognised for their work by the Funny Women Awards and what we can expect from the show!
Celebrating over 30 years of nurturing and championing UK stage design talent, the Linbury Prize for Stage Design – in collaboration with the Linbury Trust and National Theatre have recently announced the recipients of their 2021 Award. A cohort consisting of 12 graduates from some of the UK’s top drama schools, the prize offers each winner a bursary of £5,000 and a design associate placement alongside an established designer. A much needed confidence boost, in what has been a very challenging 2 years post the pandemic, the prize offers a chance to acknowledge the great work that continues to take place off stage. Graduate of Wimbledon College of Arts Ruth Badila and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Blythe Brett tell us more about what it means to receive the award, what they’ve taken away from their training so far and their future aspirations!
We could have turned back.
The production of Eure Paläste sind leer (Your Palaces Are Empty) marks the first time a play by award-winning Austrian dramatist Thomas Köck premieres at a Munich theatre. The only dramatist to win the important Mühlheimer Dramatikpreis twice in a row, in 2018 and 2019, Köck focuses on choric theatre, his dramas resemble musical compositions and are written as continuous texts without punctuation. Eure Paläste sind leer (all we ever wanted) is his first collaboration with director Jan-Christoph Gockel, and the beginning of a long-term relationship with the Münchner Kammerspiele.