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...
H-Effect Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 28/09/2021On Friday night, the festival saw the main event; the ‘spectacle’. Close Strangers: East is full to the brim with...
Reviewer's rating Rock of Ages Richard McKee 22/09/2021Only two weeks ago the New Wimbledon Theatre, opening at last after so many months of ‘restrictions’, was packed with...
Reviewer's rating MXNIFESTO Richard McKee 17/09/2021Titania Gethsemane McGrath is “a spoof radical intersectionalist poet”. When I read that before the show, I was puzzled. What...
