Review: THE KEY OF DREAMS, Treowen
by Franco Milazzo - October 20, 2024
With tickets costing £400 each and a storyline stretching over 24 hours, is Lemon Difficult’s The Key Of Dreams the ultimate in immersive theatre? ...
Review: AUTUMN, Park Theatre
by Katie Kirkpatrick - October 19, 2024
Based on Ali Smith’s novel, Autumn is a curious blur of images and ideas, which weave in and out of each other with varying success. At the centre of it all, however, is an unlikely friendship, originally formed between an eight-year-old girl and the elderly man next door....
Review: IMMERSIVE 1984, Hackney Town Hall
by Franco Milazzo - October 18, 2024
Watching this reboot of Immersive 1984, a thought comes to mind: if, as we’re constantly being informed, we’re all living in the post-privacy, post-truth and post-politics world foretold in 1984, aren’t we already inside an immersive version of George Orwell’s seminal book?
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Review: THE DUCHESS (OF MALFI), Trafalgar Theatre
by Alexander Cohen - October 17, 2024
Zinnie Harris’s 2019 incarnation of The Duchess of Malfi, matter-of-factly titled The Duchess (of Malfi), desperately yearns to conjure the sexy metatheatrical cunning of Van Hove, Mitchell, Ostermeier. It stumbles toe-curlingly at every hurdle.
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Review: BECOMING NANCY, Birmingham Rep
by Laura Lott - October 16, 2024
Cheese and pineapple on a stick, anyone? The latest musical from Birmingham Rep takes us back to 1970s Britain, where trousers were flared, birthday parties required Iced Gems, and boys definitely didn't play girls in school musicals without everyone having something to say about it. BWW's critic we...
Review: LAND OF THE FREE, Southwark Playhouse
by Josh Maughan - October 16, 2024
Land of the Free might be considered a success. Yes, its structure stumbles and feels a bit misguided at times, but it got a room full of people discussing some truly important issues. In a world facing such uncertainty, that’s exactly the kind of conversation theatre should be encouraging!
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Review: FOUR - YOUNG ASSOCIATES, Sadler's Wells
by Matthew Paluch - October 16, 2024
It can be a mistake to get overexcited. If then disappointed, the reality is tough to take. Case in point: Four by the Young Associates at Sadler’s Wells. Read our review...
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