South of Home / Takeaway Sam Pengelly 15/12/2016 Re:Write is an exciting project which aims to showcase new London writing. After the sold-out success of Re:Awakened (July 2016), the team returned to...
Pigeon English Sam Pengelly 03/10/2016 Pigeon English fizzes with intensity and promises everything we should expect from a National Youth Theatre production. Alongside Romeo and Juliet and...
The Mother Sam Pengelly 21/07/2016 Ever tried Ever failed No matter Try again Fail again Fail better We encounter Beckett’s famous instructions upon a blackboard at the forefront ...
Ugly Lovely Sam Pengelly 06/07/2016 It felt apt that the Welsh football team were dismantling European heavyweights Belgium in the Euro 2016 quarter-final match in the pub below the Old ...
The Local Stigmatic Sam Pengelly 13/05/2016 The Local Stigmatic still resonates. Director Michael Toumey confronts us with Heathcote Williams’ aggressive, vitriolic and pulsating drama on its fi...
After Independence Sam Pengelly 11/05/2016 Zimbabwe, 1998. Eighteen years after the country secured its independence from British colonial rule. The Mugabe government is enforcing land-reclamat...
In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel Sam Pengelly 13/04/2016 Tennessee Williams’ 1969 play, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel is rarely performed, and after watching, I think there is some reasoning behind that. It is...
Anna Karenina Sam Pengelly 22/03/2016 The BBC recently condensed Tolstoy’s epic War and Peace into six one-hour long episodes. The ever-ambitious Arrows and Traps Theatre Company have foll...
Table Top Shakespeare: Macbeth/ Pericles Sam Pengelly 09/03/2016 Sunday 12pm-2pm. We enter the sixth and final day of Forced Entertainment’s titanic project- presenting all but one of Shakespeare’s dramas in the Bar...
Uncle Vanya Sam Pengelly 14/02/2016 I read an interesting article a while ago in which the exciting director, Robert Icke, discussed theatre’s challenge to compete with TV shows such as ...
