Flamboyant, relevant and highly entertaining, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie delivers a hilarious yet moving narrative following a 16 year old boy who dreams of becoming a drag queen in working class Sheffield. Tom MacRae’s musical is packed full of witty comedy, it explores identity, ambition, and the crushing reality of bigotry in school and even at home.
Joseph Brodsky was and continues to be a celebrated poet and essayist. Acknowledged for his body of work in 1987 by being awarded a Nobel Prize and also becoming the US poet laureate in 1991, Brodsky’s legacy lives on. Legendary ballet dancer and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov counts Brodsky as one of his dearest friends, and looks to delve into the poet’s works in his latest show Brodsky/Baryshnikov. Read on to find out more about the show.
Michael Simkin’s stage adaptation tests patience. Adapted from the bestselling book of the same name, Dear Lupin dramatises the real life letter correspondence of The Sunday Times writer, Roger Mortimer and Charlie Mortimer, his increasingly wayward son.
The vampire and the awkward teen. At first glance, Let the Right One In is befitting of a genre that has captured the nervous hearts of teenagers worldwide, probably because its pointy-toothed protagonists reflect the typically tween- and teenage gripes of alienation and otherness that muddle the path to the adult world. Let the Right One In explores these themes, but opens them up to a much wider social context, successfully including us all in the question of ‘otherness’ and what it means to be human.
