3.0★ ★ ★ The Snail House Grace Creaton-Barber 20/09/2022 Richard Eyre’s much anticipated original play tries incredibly hard to be of the time but sadly lacks the nuance to do so without the aid of sweeping ...
3.0★ ★ ★ Grease The Musical Grace Creaton-Barber 29/05/2022 The likeness to the film is uncanny – adults masquerading as teenagers, casually draped over scaffolding and lounging on school steps; the characters ...
3.0★ ★ ★ Dirty Dancing Grace Creaton-Barber 09/02/2022 Seeing the Dominion Theatre bathed in a pink glow should offer a good indication of the evening ahead. And if you are a fan of the film, I can say wit...
3.0★ ★ ★ When Jazz Meets Flamenco Grace Creaton-Barber 29/11/2021 This is a show of multiple halves: the understated and the overly extravagant; the band and the star; the flamenco and the jazz (just about). It se...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Little Women The Musical Grace Creaton-Barber 22/11/2021 Little extravagance, but an absolute abundance of warmth. If I were to offer a one word review, it would very simply be beautiful. There are no oth...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ SIX Grace Creaton-Barber 12/11/2021 The experience that SIX offers its audience is unparalleled. It is rare to step foot in a theatre where the audience spends the majority of its time o...
A Quiet Revolution: About The Festival Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 10/10/2021 Closer Strangers: East is a platform that enables ‘intercultural dialogue’. As a representation of the Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Queer communi...
Shelter Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 07/10/2021 Down a side street of ram shackled buildings and rust rimmed cars, there is a door. It is not a welcoming door. In fact, the paint is so chipped that ...
That Walk Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 03/10/2021 Agata Siwiak, the art director of Close Strangers: East, is a firm believer in participatory theatre not as a temporary solution due to the pandemic, ...
Stand Up (for your rights) Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 02/10/2021 The scene is set. We are attending a stand-up performance by Belarusian activist and artist Jana Shostak. We are screaming for Belarus; we are shar...