Though it may seem counterintuitive, investing more in the drama of their stories is the key for Project2 to anchor their narratives and create comedy gold. Improvisers Katy Schute and Chris Mead begin Thirteen Cycles as …
Christopher York's metatheatrical reimagining of The Pit and the Pendulum transposes its central characters' dire fate on an unnamed but real-life Iranian activist. When a peaceful Iranian protestor becomes a prisoner, she (meta-theatrically) finds herself in Christopher York’s …
Valiant performances and an interesting, expressionist design are not quite enough to elevate A Pupil's lethargic writing. Lucy Sheen wheels on to stage as Ye, an utterly dejected former musical prodigy. Ye occupies a sparse bedsit that’s littered …
Laughs do come thick and fast in Fat Rascal's gender-swapped Beauty and the Beast parody - but it doesn't particularly play to individual cast members' strengths, nor seem quite as imaginative or well-oiled, as Vulvarine did. Fat Rascal's Vulvarine was …
An excellent cast - and accomplished direction - can't quite rescue the Park's revival of Honour from a text that feels dated, formulaic and self-satisfied. Joanna Murray-Smith’s Honour deconstructs an idea still perpetuated by rom-coms, Disney flicks and …
Ian Hislop and Nick Newman's The Wipers Times is a witty, fast-paced and well-performed frolic through Flanders Fields. “There’s nothing funny about the war”: so says one austere general of the British High Command. Quite right he …
Travis Alabanza's participatory BURGERZ confronts gendered repression, structural complicity and the way they've learnt to effectively process trauma - with piercing writing, an impassioned central performance and a tricksy and intelligent structure. London-based performance artist Travis Alabanza's …
Piecing together the drug-fuelled ups and downs of one of music's most loved enigmas, Vika Bull raises the roof of the Cadogan Hall with an electrifying performance in At Last: The Etta James Story. While she was …
A rough-and-ready musical with talented musicians and humour aplenty, what Say My Name! lacks in its execution is made up for by pure irreverence. AMC's Breaking Bad is roughly 62 hours of family turmoil, violence and …
Adapted for stage by Jenny King, Bram Stoker's Dracula contains all your vampire clichés but failed to quench my thirst for a particularly original take. In the month of Halloween, Bram Stoker's Dracula seems a timely opportunity to …
I was lucky to catch up with Travis Alabanza this week – an emerging queer artist that I've had the pleasure of watching in Scottee's Putting Words In Your Mouth, Belonging (a Chats Palace event, again hosted by …
Gracefool Collective’s This Really Is Too Much comprises four extremely talented young women with incredible energy, delivering complex socio-political gendered subplots through an innovative style of spoken word, physical theatre and dance. But is the …