16th April 2019 Peter Shaffer’s intense psychodrama – inspired by a bizarre real life crime in a small town near Suffolk– is given a dynamic and assured renewal in this co-production between the English Touring Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford… Continue Reading
22nd March 2019 BE Festival, the Birmingham festival for daring and innovative theatre, comedy, circus and other performing arts, is touring three acts to showcase the best of what it has recently offered. Now reaching the hallowed hall of Circomedia,… Continue Reading
25th January 2019 Nora and Dora Chance are celebrating their 75th birthday south of the River Thames. North of the water, their father Melchior Hazard is ready to host his 100th birthday party. The greatest actor of his generation is… Continue Reading
14th December 2018 Incest, bestiality, vomiting puppets and hysterical hilarity? It could only be Christmas at the Wardrobe Theatre. Returning Oedipuss in Boots to the stage for what is the ensembles eighth-year, the institution that is the Theatres adult pantomime shows… Continue Reading
20th November 2018 Losing your reading glasses. Only finding one sock in the wash. Missing a Jammy Dodger from your plate. While often thought to be the fault of simple misplacement, or absent-mindedness on the part of the owner, there… Continue Reading
28th September 2018 Shakespeare’s historical eulogy to the indomitable Lion, Henry V, has to many (especially in the public consciousness) become the definitive text recounting the life and times of the chivalrous leader. His words (“once more unto the breech… Continue Reading
18th September 2018 Those already familiar with mountaineer Joe Simpson’s 1988 memoir or Kevin MacDonald’s heart-stopping 2003 documentary, will most likely agree that Simpson’s incredible tale of survival in the face of the starkest adversity is one that nearly defies… Continue Reading
28th June 2018 Familiar to most by way of the 1980 motion picture directed by David Lynch, the tragic tale of Joseph Merrick remains a devastating real life parable of human cruelty and indignity, how we treat otherness, the… Continue Reading