Cindy Marcolina - Page 33

In a nondescript but not-too-distant future, hotels are starting to use anthropomorphic robots to enhance the stay of their guests. Each one of them has a predictive software that tracks their patron from their booking onward, creating a digital model to cater to all their needs - even those they're unaware of.

After a critically acclaimed run in New York, writer and performer Jeannette Bayardelle is bringing her show Shida to London. The musical is based on the true story of an African-American girl who dreams of becoming a writer and is set to a score infused with gospel, R&B, jazz, and rock to deliver a universal tale of redemption, hope, and friendship.

After an astonishing success at the Kiln Theatre earlier in the year, Florian Zeller's The Son (in a translation by Christopher Hampton) transfers to the West End. Director Michael Longhurst has the entire cast reprising their roles, with John Light and Amanda Abbington playing the parents of Laurie Kynaston's Nicolas once again. The jarring exploration of teenage depression is tighter and even more poignant in this second incarnation, having filled in those small gaps that kept the ending too anchored to the ground the first time. They are assured in their gut-wrenching pace, with Light delivering what could be the performance of a lifetime.

Finborough Theatre are presenting the European premiere of Anahera, a new play by Emma Kinane. Directed by Alice Kornitzer, it sees a young Māori social worker supporting the parents of a missing child. We caught up with the playwright and the director ahead of their opening.

Boris Pasternak's 1957 novel Doctor Zhivago won its author a Nobel Prize for Literature and later spawned a lengthy (and fairly sluggish) film directed by David Lean in 1965. It took 41 years for the original material to be turned into a musical. Written by Lucy Simon (score), Michael Weller (book), Michael Korie and Amy Powers (lyrics), it then debuted on Broadway in 2015 in a massive production led by Tam Mutu and Kelli Barrett, receiving a rather cold shoulders from critics.

It's the late 1990s and Ben (Tom Milligan) and his mother's Viv (Patricia Potter) have just moved to the World's End Estate in Chelsea from Norfolk. Their neighbours are Ylli (Nikolaos Brahimllari) and his son Besnik (Mirlind Bega), who have escaped the Kosovo War years before. When the two teenagers find out that they both love video games, they begin to get closer and strive to break free from the (extremely different) conventions set by their parents.

Just before the company of Torch Song started their previews, director Drew McOnie and actor Matthew Needham took some time off from their hectic rehearsal schedule to sit down with us and talk about their show. The play follows drag queen Arnold Beckoff on his quest for true love in 1970s New York.

Lady L's 60th birthday is approaching and her children Gordon and Oonagh (Theo Bamber and Lucy Lowe) join her for the celebration. It becomes immediate that they're not there out love, but to claim what is theirs. Meanwhile, Kapenie, the help, makes it clear to his grandson George: his loyalty stands with his employer, even at the expense of his own family. Alexander Matthews's My One True Friend is an underwhelming and overly pretentious account of racism and privilege in 1978 Rhodesia.

At 30 years old, Judith is has never been in a relationship but now she's getting ready to entertain her date. Filled to the brim with tunes from the 1950s, Unlovable is a howler of an act. Carly Jurman lands her one-woman clown show to Camden Fringe in spectacular fashion.

Psychiatrist Orestes Carter (Riccardo Carollo) is presenting his new thriller. In the novel, he details how he went back to his childhood home to help his sister Electra (Mariana Elicetche). The events that unfolded after, he says, are pure fiction. The core of Arif Alfaraz's play is anchored to Greek mythology but, unfortunately. it's not a solid transposition.

Death feels unappreciated. Nobody mentions him during funerals and his work goes unnoticed as a?oefreak accidentsa?? and such. So, he takes the stage to tell his own story.

People in their twenties will start to notice that all their friends are either getting married or having children. Except that it's not true. No Limits puts the struggles and anxiety of reaching adulthood to a pop beat.

Oskar is 32 years old. Or perhaps he is 26, depending on the man he's sleeping with that night. Oskar Hartman recounts his escapades and details the spicy sex life he's lead during the run-up to his 30s.

Performer Antigoni Spanou wades through her depression and eating disorders exploring the character of Ophelia and puts her own lived experiences next to the character's in her interactive piece Ophelia Rewound. Sharp and decisive lighting opens the highly personal journey and sets the tone for what's set to be an extremely visual and instinctive experiment.

Dora Maar was Pablo Picasso's muse for about nine years across the mid-1930s and 1940s before she was discarded like his other women. She was dragged into the Cubist's radical life, made to fight physically for his attention with his partner and mother to his daughter Marie, and went on to inspire many of his most notable works. Aslant Theatre Company explore what it means to act as inspiration and the sacrifice required by artistic creation in their new play Muse, written and directed by Antonia Georgieva.

The first lethal chamber has just been open in Washington Square. The novelty shakes the young bohemians who, as they address the corruption of art and soul, become entranced by a mysterious book.

Becky (Camille Wilhelm), Felix (Nicholas Marrast-Lewis), and Mary (Fizz Waller) are spending the summer at Camp in the hopes of earning their Gay-Card. In-between classes about the LGBTQ+ community, how to deal with harassment, and how to be inclusive, they learn that support and understanding are all it takes to navigate a society where queer is everything people aspire to be.

Beezer and O'Rourke share a dilapidated flat in London trying to make ends meet. When Dollar, their landlord, promises to forgo their rent for six months and to give them a weekly allowance in exchange for a small favour, they don't think twice of what their decision will entail.

A reporter and her camerawoman visit a family after one of their twin children has disappeared. Peculiar family relationships and a modest social critique are unearthed in a New York that's bordering World War 45, where hipsters and criminals coexists in a grim picture of the city.

All or Nothing Repertory Theatre Company unveils what lies behind King Richard III, William Shakespeare's cruel hunchback, the deformed villain who ends the Bard's War of the Roses Saga. Simon Stewart weaves Henry VI Part 2 & 3 and Richard III into a nifty one-hour play depicting how the King is simply a product of the unhealthy environment that lead to his rise to power.