Radioactive Practice Hafiza Butt 22/10/2024‘Radioactive Practice’ is an incredibly difficult piece to review, not because it was bad; it wasn’t, but because there is...
Visit from and Unknown Woman Hafiza Butt 13/07/2024Decades before ‘Bridgerton’, Peter Brook taught us that the stories we tell on stage and film can be colour blind....
Bluets Hafiza Butt 14/06/2024The only thing that makes life bearable is the ephemeral, that which doesn’t have to have a line drawn under...
Reviewer's rating Loyola Grimeborn 2023 Hafiza Butt 15/08/2023Because we now no longer know key events in Western history, we need to be sign-posted. Galleries identify the pantheon...
Reviewer's rating Innocence Hafiza Butt 06/05/2023Even though it is a love story culminating in a marriage that begins this tale, Innocence is not a love...
4 & 9 Hafiza Butt 29/05/2019Paintings of bodies may capture the lushness, frailty and decay of flesh. But if vitality means to be in motion...
Reviewer's rating Rooms Hafiza Butt 13/04/2019We walk into a warehouse-like space. Inside, there are five pre-fabricated rooms. We are divided into five groups, each with...
Reviewer's Rating A Family Outing – 20 Years On Hafiza Butt 31/03/2019Urusla Martinez’ A family outing- 20 years later, playing at the Barbican’s Pitt and part of the Barbican’s 2019 Life...
Reviewer's Rating Sleeping Beauty Hafiza Butt 14/12/2018Theatre Royal Stratford East’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ is a roaring, gorgeous piece of work, balancing the gaudy license of traditional panto...
Reviewer's Rating Swan Lake Hafiza Butt 25/08/2018The sheer lushness of the St. Petersburg Theatre’s production of Swan Lake is staggering. The production values are high –...