A Quiet Revolution: About The Festival Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 10/10/2021Closer Strangers: East is a platform that enables ‘intercultural dialogue’. As a representation of the Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Queer...
Reviewer's rating The Mirror and the Light Tim Hochstrasser 09/10/2021The stage version of Hilary Mantel’s first two novels on the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell was the theatrical...
Shelter Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 07/10/2021Down a side street of ram shackled buildings and rust rimmed cars, there is a door. It is not a...
Reviewer's rating Les Démons Emilie Proudhon-Dumesny 06/10/2021This season, the legendary Comédie Française takes on Dostoyevsky. Barely two years after Ivo Van Hove’s majestic and disturbing adaptation...
That Walk Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 03/10/2021Agata Siwiak, the art director of Close Strangers: East, is a firm believer in participatory theatre not as a temporary...
Stand Up (for your rights) Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 02/10/2021The scene is set. We are attending a stand-up performance by Belarusian activist and artist Jana Shostak. We are screaming...
Reviewer's rating The Normal Heart Tim Hochstrasser 01/10/2021Larry Kramer’s ‘The Normal Heart’ (1985) is recognised as one of the most influential plays to come out of the...
Pandemic.ua Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 30/09/2021Pandemic.ua is a project inspired by the inability to communicate in conventional theatrical ways during the pandemic. This performance has...
Reviewer's rating Jenůfa Tim Hochstrasser 29/09/2021Jenůfa (1904) is Janáček’s first mature opera, but still underperformed in comparison with the five masterpieces that follow it. Though...
Reviewer's rating Back to the Future: The Musical Richard Voyce 28/09/2021Show business is, as the saying goes, not art, but business. And business can be a very venal beast. Rarely...
