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Tag: 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

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

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

Chiaroscuro at the Bush Theatre – A powerful yet tangled revival

24th September 201924th September 2019  Samantha-Louise Hayden

Lynette Linton revives Jackie Kay’s 1980s play, Chiaroscuro, which explores the interconnected narratives of four young black and brown women.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Anoushka Lucas, Bush Theatre, Chiaroscuro, Gloria Onitiri, Jackie Kay, Lynette Linton, Musical Theatre, Preeya Kalidas, Shiloh Coke, Theatre

Falsettos at The Other Palace Theatre

15th September 201915th September 2019  Jo Hemmings

Tara Overfield-Wilkinson’s revival of Falsettos, the Tony award-winning musical about an unconventional New York Jewish family, is a worthy and emotionally powerful production, writes our theatre critic Jo Hemmings.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Aids Crisis, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Broadway, Daniel Boys, Falsettos, Gemma Knight-Jones, George Kennedy, James Lapine, Laura Pitt-Pulford, Musical Theatre, Natasha J Barnes, Oliver Savile, Tara Overfield-Wilkinson, The Other Palace Theatre, Theatre, William Finn

Louise Orwin’s Oh Yes Oh No at the Cambridge Junction

2nd August 20192nd August 2019  Carla Plieth

Louise Orwin’s latest one-woman show, Oh Yes Oh No, tackles the issue of consent, coercion and female erotic desire in the context of the #MeToo movement.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: #MeToo, Alicia Jane Turner, British Council, Cambridge Junction, Consent, Edinburgh Fringe, Girl and a Gun, Louise Orwin, Oh Yes Oh No, Pretty Ugly, Theatre

Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner at the Royal Court Theatre

25th July 201926th July 2019  Samantha-Louise Hayden

Jasmine Lee-Jones’ debut play at the Royal Court Theatre is provocatively titled, but perfectly pitched, writes our arts contributor Samantha-Louise Hayden.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Danielle Vitalis, Delphine Gaborit, Elena Peña, Helen Murray, Jasmine Lee-Jones, Jessica Hung Han Yun, Milli Bhatia, Radha Shakiry, Royal Court Theatre, Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner, Theatre, Tia Bannon

Chekhov’s Three Sisters at the Almeida Theatre

24th May 201924th May 2019  Melissa Mouthaan

Cordelia Lynn and Rebecca Frecknall’s version of Chekhov’s classic, Three Sisters, offers a fresh and modern take on the tale of three siblings yearning for a better life in Moscow.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Alexander Eliot, Almeida Theatre, Anton Chekhov, Cordelia Lynn, Freddie Meredith, Lois chimimba, Moscow, Patsy Ferran, Pearl Chandra, Rebecca Frecknall, Ria Zmitrowicz, Russia, Theatre, Three Sisters

Andrea Levy’s Small Island at the National Theatre

6th May 20196th May 2019  Carla Plieth

The National Theatre’s latest adaptation of Andrea Levy’s novel, Small Island, offers a powerful and poignant exploration of identity, home and belonging.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Aisling Loftus, Andrea Levy, Gershwyn Eustach Jnr, Helen Edmundson, Jamaica, Leah Harvey, National Theatre, Rufus Norris, Second World War, SS Empire Windrush, Theatre, Windrush Generation

Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls at the National Theatre

14th April 201915th April 2019  Jo Hemmings

A dinner party brings together five iconic female figures from history and myth in Caryl Churchill’s famous play, Top Girls. Our arts contributor, Jo Hemmings, reviews the National Theatre’s latest revival of Churchill’s feminist classic.

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Posted in Arts, TheatreTagged: Boccaccio, Bruegel, Caryl Churchill, Charles Perrault, Chaucer, Dull Gret, Isabella Bird, Lady Nijo, National Theatre, Patient Griselda, Pope Joan, Theatre, Top Girls

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