This inventive, darkly comic and politically charged remix of Chekhov’s classic blends autobiographical drama, Chekhovian themes and biting satire. When Russia’s invasion of Ukraine casts a shadow of censorship over Kon’s free-spirited reimagining of Chekhov’s The Seagull, the production is stripped down to a state-approved shell of its former self. Desperate to save his vision […]
Review: This Bitter Earth directed by Billy Porter at Soho Theatre London
June 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Dance: Fragments of Us at Greenwich+Docklands International Festival 2025
June 25, 2025 by Leave a Comment
The UK’s leading Black British theatre company, Talawa will premiere an uplifting new outdoor work, “Fragments of Us” as part of Greenwich+Docklands International Festival’s 30th anniversary. In collaboration with London-based Black British contemporary dance company FUBUNATION, and theatre and live art practitioner Sonia Hughes, this captivating outdoor work uses movement and spoken word to platform […]
Raindance Icon Award to late, great Dame Joan Plowright for Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
June 22, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This year’s Raindance Film Festival presents an additional Icon Award posthumously honouring the late, great Dame Joan Plowright in the year of her passing – presented for her final major screen role in Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (dir: Dan Ireland, UK/USA). Raindance’s 33rd edition (18-27 June) includes a special 20th Anniversary tribute screening of […]
Theatre: Salomé by Gesher Theatre in London
June 13, 2025 by Leave a Comment
In a co-production with Theatre Royal Haymarket, The Gesher Theatre presents Maxim Didenko’s highly stylised production of Oscar Wilde’s intoxicating world, in which beauty becomes a weapon and a kiss can mean death. Written by Wilde in 1891, this lyrical one-act play, banned in Britain at the time, tells the biblical tale of Salomé, the […]
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 […]
Every Body Festival at Camden People’s Theatre
May 29, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Every Body Festival is a two-week celebration of disabled and deaf-led performance, creativity and community launching at Camden People’s Theatre this summer. Artistic Director Rio Matchett’s inaugural programme, running from 29th June – 13th July, the festival features live theatre, digital premieres, cabaret, workshops and panel events, all led by disabled and deaf artists, and all with […]
Double Bill Plays with “Hermione’s Dinner” and “Toxic” at White Bear Theatre
May 23, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Golden Age Theatre Company presents Toxic & Hermione’s Dinner from 17th – 28th June 2025 at the White Bear Theatre, 138 Kennington Park Road, London. Hermione’s Dinner Carla, one of that rare breed of women who harbour a powerful aversion for children, is hoping to save her old friend Roger from being drawn into the […]
Movie: The Road to Patagonia – “Australian Film of the Year”
May 22, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Follow ecologist Matty Hannon on an incredible solo adventure as he leaves his life in the city behind for the great outdoors. Surfing his way along the west coast of the Americas, his ambitious voyage takes him from the Alaskan wilderness to the tip of Patagonia. But just as the dangers and isolation of such a […]
