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Category: Theatre

Maz Hedgehog’s Let Me Count The Ways at Hope Mill Theatre

22nd June 202122nd June 2021  Toni Roberts

Back for a second run, Maz Hedgehog’s play, Let Me Count the Ways, blends monologue with poetry in this one-woman show about mental health, blackness, queerness and beauty.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Faye Draper, Hope Mill Theatre, love, Maz Hedgehog, Mental Health, self-love, Theatre

Hymn by Lolita Chakrabarti at the Almeida Theatre

19th February 202119th February 2021  Toni Roberts

Lolita Chakrabarti’s play, Hymn, is a heartfelt and sensitive exploration of family, male friendship and the power of music.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Adrian Lester, Almeida Theatre, Blanche McIntyre, Danny Sapani, Hymn, live theatre, Lolita Chakrabarti, Review, streaming, Theatre, Toni Roberts

Women of the Night, Chapter 1: Lorca’s “Rural Trilogy”

3rd September 202025th November 2020  Toni Roberts

Sympathising with the marginalised, Lorca wrote spirited plays featuring aspirational but oppressed women who sought freedom, pleasure and solace under the cover of night. Here, in the first essay of her mini series, Toni Roberts explores Lorca’s rural trilogy, reflecting on his heroines’ relationship to the night – and day.

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Posted in Arts, Books, TheatreTagged: Abortion, Billie Piper, Blood Wedding, Duende, Federico Garcia Lorca, Flamenco, Johan Persson, La Barraca, Lorca, Marc Brenner, National Theatre, Night / Shift, Rural trilogy, Southern Spain, Spain, The House of Bernarda Alba, Theatre, Toni Roberts, Women of the Night, Yerma, Young Vic

‘Twelve Verses to Make You Rot’: Ultimate Dancer’s Hevi Metle at the BALTIC, Gateshead

21st April 202016th May 2020  Gwen Dupré

Gwen Dupré responds to Ultimate Dancer’s Hevi Metle, a durational sonic performance of six hours, six minutes and six seconds which draws on a feminist approach to alchemy.

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Posted in Arts, Dance, TheatreTagged: alchemy, Black Sabbath, Hevi Metle, Juliana Capes, Leah Landau, Night / Shift, The Baltic, The Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art, Ultimate Dancer, witchcraft

Caryl Churchill’s Far Away at the Donmar Warehouse

2nd March 20202nd March 2020  Tina Jenkins

Carol Churchill dips into dystopian territory with this short, chilling and atmospheric revival of Far Away.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Aisling Loftus, Caryl Churchill, Donmar Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, dystopia, Far Away, Jessica Hynes, Royal Court, Sophia Ally

The Visit at the National Theatre

25th February 202025th February 2020  Carla Plieth

The National Theatre presents a new adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s revenge thriller, The Visit, by Tony Kushner, which investigates just how far one would go for money in an age of consumerism and capitalism.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Hugo Weaving, Jeremy Herrin, Lesley Manville, Moritz Junge, The Visit, Tony Kushner

Collapsible at the Bush Theatre

17th February 202017th February 2020  Tina Jenkins

Playwright Margaret Perry’s latest one-woman show, Collapsible, is a sharp, witty and honest portrayal of a young woman navigating the harsh impersonal systems of the world.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Breffni Holahan, Bush Theatre, Collapsible, Margaret Perry, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Thomas Martin

Interview with performance artist, Louise Orwin – “I hate this toxic idea that if women become empowered it’s taking something away from men”

20th January 202012th February 2020  Carla Plieth

Award-winning performance artist Louise Orwin talks to our Arts contributor Carla Plieth about her latest project Oh Yes Oh No and its exploration of female sexual desire, the #MeToo movement, her creative process and more.

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Posted in Arts, Interviews, TheatreTagged: #MeToo, A Girl and a Gun, Feminism, Kill Kill Cry Cry, Louise Orwin, Oh Yes Oh No, Performance, Pretty Ugly, Sex, Theatre, Theresamaysmackdown

Figs in Wigs present The Wind in the Willows, at the Cambridge Junction

21st December 201921st December 2019  Carla Plieth

The Figs in Wigs are back at the Cambridge Junction, but this time they’re bringing mirth and mischief to young and old alike with their adaptation of The Wind in the Willows.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Cambridge Junction, Figs in Wigs, Kenneth Graeme, The Wind in the Willows

Sandy Wilson’s The Boy Friend, at the Menier Chocolate Factory

13th December 201913th December 2019  Jo Hemmings

Matthew White and Bill Deamer successfully revive Sandy Wilson’s 1950s hit musical, The Boy Friend, about a group of young women at a finishing school in the French Riviera.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Adrian Edmondson, Amara Okereke, Bill Deamer, Julie Andrews, Matthew White, Musical Theatre, Sandy Wilson, The Boy Friend, The Menier Chocolate Factory, West End

Fitter at Soho Theatre

9th December 20198th February 2020  Shameera Nair Lin

Mary Higgins and Ell Potter devise and perform in Fitter, a show based on interviews with trans men, cis men and male presenting people, aged from 8 to 102, discussing their views on relationships and desire.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: #MeToo, Fitter, Soho Theatre, Theatre

Botticelli in the Fire at Hampstead Theatre

4th December 20195th December 2019  Frankie Dytor

Jordan Tannahill’s latest play, Botticelli in the Fire, is a glorious queering of Florentine Renaissance, which reveals just as much about the present as it does the past.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Adetomiwa Edun, Botticelli in the Fire, Dickie Beau, Hampstead Theatre, Hiram Abeysekera, Howard Ward, Jordan Tannahill, Leonardo da Vinci, Marsyas, Sandro Botticelli, Sirine Saba, Stefan Adegbola, The Medicis, Theatre

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