A thrilling, intimate production instantly and winningly breaking the fourth wall, and then delivering a shattering, fragmentary, non-linear portrait of a passionate but troubled relationship of a gay, interracial couple, Neil and Jesse – against a US backdrop of race, inequality, and police brutality. The play, This Bitter Earth‘s timeline is marked by the deaths […]
Review: This Bitter Earth directed by Billy Porter at Soho Theatre London
June 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Immersive Theatre Preview: STOREHOUSE from Sage and Jester
June 5, 2025 by Leave a Comment
It’s quite a journey from truth to disinformation and you’ll need to take the bus from Canada Water station to Deptford, South East London to get there. Among a mix of local authority and new builds you’ll see a big old rusty gate through which, up a long path through weeds (the real thing, not […]
Theatre Review: Cul-de-sac by David Shopland at Omnibus Theatre
May 30, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Fake Escape in association with Omnibus Theatre present the world premiere of Cul-de-sac by David Shopland from 27th May to Saturday 14th June 2025 at the Omnibus Theatre, Clapham London. Think Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf meets Abigail’s Party and you are beginning to scratch this surface of this confident if too lengthy play. Alan […]
Review: Paper Swans at Soho Theatre London
April 30, 2025 by Leave a Comment
***** Five star – unmissable! MANinLONDON In a closed park at night, Peter, a security guard (Daniel Chrisostomou) on his patrol finds Anna, a young woman (Vyte Garriga) dressed in a pristine white ballet dress sitting on a bench making paper swans. As Peter tries to find out what she is doing and importantly for […]
Film Review: Berlinale 2025 – a 75th Festival Jubilee
March 11, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Berliners, Sabine ‘Bee’ Koch writes, were very much looking forward to this year’s Berlinale 2025. After five years the not-so-dynamic duo of Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian who, in my opinion, never connected with the festival, the city, and foremost its people, have handed over the reins to London Film Festival alumni Tricia Tuttle. While the […]
New London Literary Event “The Conversation” at St Martin in the Fields
December 11, 2024 by
The Conversation is a series of weekly conversations exploring the biggest topics of the day from global conflict to the climate crisis with Britain’s leading thinkers, scientists, philosophers, historians, war correspondents and writers. Running from 14th January to 22nd April 2025, The Conversation features talks with bestselling writers including Hanif Kureishi, Ahdaf Soueif, Paul Lynch […]
Priscilla the Party! HERE at Outernet London
January 31, 2024 by
Ah-huh, have we got news for you? You better listen…and leave your umbrellas at home because for the first time it’s world premiere of a new immersive party experience right bang in central London. The full cast has been announced for the musical experience Priscilla the Party! at HERE at Outernet in London. Directed by […]
“Let’s get together” Berlinale 2023
March 21, 2023 by
Bee takes another bite of the Berlinale – her informed and inimitable take on the 73rd annual Berlin International Film Festival in 2023. After being very successful last year, this year’s Berlinale upped the ante and went to 100% capacity. The audiences lapped it up with most screenings selling out and people congregating just like […]
Bee’s Pick of the Top 3 from Tanz im August Contemporary Dance Festival
October 6, 2022 by
The numbers are impressive: 87 performances, 21 productions, 200 performing artists from 25 countries in seven venues all over Berlin – that’s Tanz im August, one of the most important European festivals for contemporary dance. 2022’s festival saw director Virve Sutinen go out with a bang after nine years and Ricardo Camona, the new director starting […]
Theatre Alert: Rula Lenska in Evelyn at Southwark Playhouse
March 27, 2022 by
In “Evelyn” Rula Lenska stars as unsuspecting landlady, Jeanne who takes pity on Sandra, a stranger who might not be who she says she is. Inspired by real life events, Evelyn is a story of mob-justice in modern day Britain that interrogates the question: when is justice really served? This unflinching piece of theatre takes a […]
