Whilst Strictly Ballroom the Musical harnesses much of Baz Luhrmann’s extravagance, the magic is dispelled by the erratic pace of its storytelling. When adapting a film for the stage, comparisons from the source material are inevitable …
Described as a piece of dance-theatre that blends numerous music and dance styles, The Head Wrap Diaries delivers an amalgamation of genres but fails to smooth out the mix. Fusing house, waacking and vogue with African …
Nikki & JD's Knot is intelligent, layered and often nothing short of exquisite - blending mesmerising acro and dance-theatre elements with humour and heart to navigate the ups and downs of interdependence. Last seen in Barely Methodical …
Swedish collective Räserbyrån miss a series of tricks with Rustle, a non-directive show for 'babies and their adult' which lacks the playfulness it attempts to inspire. When it comes to presenting dance & performance work for (very) little …
Circus Abyssinia: Ethiopian Dreams, the first headliner at this year's Underbelly festival, is an unstoppable and almost unbelievable hour of absolute joy. Underbelly's Southbank season kicks off with a bang this year, as Circus Abyssinia …
Lyrical, melodic and beautifully soundtracked, Out of The Forest's Bury the Hatchet was a joy to behold. As a general rule, metatheatre makes me squirm. I find it self-conscious, cloying, and quite often very annoying. So …
It's about as twee and anodyne as shows come - but A Spoonful of Sherman is well-produced, energetically performed and entirely successful at bringing its (elderly) target audience to their feet. If the Oliviers ever introduce …
The strong acting performances and compelling subject matter may be weakened by the disjointed pacing of the denouement, but We Need To Talk About Bobby (Off Eastenders) at the King’s Head Theatre is still one to …
Prepare for laughs for the whole family in Absolute Theatre and Teatro Montemuro's The 4 Clowns of The Apocalypse, but keep an eye out for glimmers of 'blink or you’ll miss it' darkness. For those familiar with …
Ten years is a recurring trope in Upstanding Productions' Faces in the Crowd. It's been ten years since Leo Butler's two-hander first debuted at the Royal Court, and ten years - we learn - since …
Arming its audience with binaural headphones, Wet Picnic's I'd Be Lost Without It focuses on contemporary addiction to smartphones and the inverse relationship between 'connection' - on a virtual level - and 'disconnect' - on a …
Funny and fast-paced, Timothy has all the potential to be a triumph - if only the women weren’t all two-dimensional archetypes, leaving the play feeling shallow and lacking in any sort of message. Here’s a sentence I …
