Someday you will die. And you can’t escape. So, you go out and find stuff. You attach meaning to the stuff. You keep the stuff. You need more stuff. You meet people. You get to know them. They’re weird. You like them. You give them your stuff or share it with them. You have a
“Mrs Thatcher has got eyes like a psychotic killer, but a voice like a gentle person. It is a bit confusing.” This could have been a line uttered by one of the characters in Moira Buffini’s new play but it’s actually taken from Adrian Mole’s Secret Diary. It is fitting to quote Adrian today not
On the farm Emoh Ruo in the Australian outback Amy (Melle Stewart), the oldest of three siblings, looks after her sick mother Claire (Simone Craddock). Amy runs the place which has been plagued by a long-lasting drought on sheer force of will. She has sacrificed a lot to her determination to maintain the family home
Quite what they were expecting when attending a theatre-concert based on Mozart, the audience at the Barbican didn’t seem to know. There was promise to take the ennui out of a concert experience and add some visual spice to it. The delivery on that promise turned out to be a little more daring than simply
420 years after its first performance, Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus returns to The Rose Playhouse, Bankside. In this version the original text has been cut down to an 80-minute one-man piece. It’s a bold move that unfortunately doesn’t pay off. At the core of what has made Doctor Faustus a universal play and often quoted
A playful adaption of Anna Kemp’s 2010 children’s book of the same name, the puppetry piece Dogs Don’t Do Ballet had a sell out run last year. With its unbounded playfulness it’s not hard to see why. At the Little Angel Theatre. Biff is just as passionate about dance as his owner, Anna. And, although
Slightly unremarkable is probably the most fitting way to describe ACS Random’s production of this much loved Shakespeare play. The intriguing idea of setting the piece in a 1940s post-war setting is sunk by unnecessary sincerity and not enough sparkiness. At the Park Theatre. Newsflash: The war is over, the enemy defeated and the boys
Tom Wells (author of the acclaimed The Kitchen Sink) creates a poignant and funny story about dealing with grief, gay life and having the balls to overcome adversity. Produced by Plaines Plough, Hull Truck and Watford Palace Theatre, Jumpers For Goalposts is somewhere between Gregory’s Girl and Bend It Like Beckham. At the Bush Theatre.
The Resistible Rise of Arthur Ui is a thinly veiled parable giving account of all the key events in Hitler’s rise to power in the 30s in Germany. This stylish production set in Chicago’s gangster world during the heydays of the Great Depression features a strong cast. It’s so funny, it’s terrifying. At the Duchess
With their latest Season of Plenty offering the Globe invites to a trippy celebration of the Dionysian spirit. In The Lightning Child Ché Walker and Arthur Darvill have reworked Euripides’ The Bacchus into a sprawling joyride spiced with musical numbers. At Shakespeare’s Globe. Everything starts out so promisingly. The colourful Globe stage is draped completely