La Manékine Sofía Danailov Esteban 15/01/2025La Manékine is a gripping story where light intersects with darkness, and joy meets despair. Blending puppetry, storytelling, and a...
Revenge: After the Levoyah Olivia Hurton 15/01/2025Theatre is limited, we’re told, in a way that film is not. What if you wanted to write a play...
The Maids Olivia Hurton 14/01/2025Director Annie Kershaw gave us a queer Hedda Gabler in 2023 at the Reading Rep; now, in another quirky textual...
Re Chicchinella Thibault Elie 14/01/2025The play tells the absurd and surreal story of a king who finds himself with a chicken lodged inside him,...
Firebird Tim Hochstrasser 14/01/2025‘Firebird’ takes its inspiration, somewhat loosely, from the memoir of actor Sergei Fetisov, and is set in the Soviet Union...
Fascinating Aida Tim Hochstrasser 11/01/2025What more is there to say about Fascinating Aida? They are an international institution, who have performed for royalty and...
City of Night Birds Tim Hochstrasser 10/01/2025This is Juhea Kim’s second novel, and it is both a technically accomplished and highly accessible, compelling read. The story...
Anna Popplewell & Olivia Hurton in conversation Olivia Hurton 09/01/2025“They’re no angels,” actress Anna Popplewell tells me wryly, speaking of Solange and Claire, the two maidservants at the centre...
St Nicholas Owen Davies 31/12/2024This fascinating one-actor play, staged at Omnibus Theatre in Clapham, is extraordinarily difficult to categorise. It’s about vampires, it’s about...
The Tempest Olivia Hurton 22/12/2024Coleridge is right about most things. The Tempest is described in his notes as a play that addresses itself to the...
