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 […]
Review: The Shark Is Broken West End Theatre London
January 17, 2022 by
This unsinkable play is a master class in writing and acting. The three lead actors shooting blockbuster “Jaws” in 1974 are stuck on a boat off Martha’s Vineyard while the unreliable mechanical shark is being repaired. They have time to kill on board the Orca and almost each other. Projected lapping waves, and clouds move […]
Review: 2.22 A Ghost Story
August 20, 2021 by
222s is a brand of northern American pain killers and you might need to take a couple to calm you down after this tense, tight, thrilling play. Piercing screams, a pulsating red neon frame to the stage, spooky garden mist and an unrelenting countdown clock – you’re already on edge of your seat and the […]
Art Review: Vincent Van Gogh Alive London
July 28, 2021 by
“This is no ordinary art exhibition” and with no actual paintings, but 38 huge screens magnifying 3,000 Van Gogh images you’d be wondering what he’d make of it all. The artist himself doesn’t quite come alive in this exhibition and might well be rolling in his grave, but finally counting up the money. Van Gogh […]
Open Bar Theatre’s Outdoor Shakespeare Performances in Fuller’s Pub Gardens
July 14, 2021 by
Shakespeare hath returned… to the pub! And that gives us real London Pride. As the natural hubs of many of our communities, pubs are the perfect setting in which to recapture the raucous, accessible and inherently social spirit of a Shakespearean troupe performance. This year is the biggest ever for Shakespeare In The Garden, with […]
