https://youtu.be/vlAjJE8mqqw Cabinet of Miracles - The Naive Theatre Liberec, Czech Republic ★★★★ Univers - Engruna Teatre, Catalonia ★★★★ AN-Ki - Cia. Ortiga, Catalonia ★★★★★ Imaginate Tickets and Programme It’s said the world was made in seven days; The Naive Theatre Liberec did it in forty-five minutes. Contemporary alchemy, Cabinet of Miracles already sets this year’s … Continue reading Review: Imaginate Round Up – The Cabinet of Miracles, Univers, and An-Ki
Music and Lyrics by The Sherman Brothers Stage Adaptation by Jeremy Sams Directed by Thom Southerland Tickets from £29.00 ★★★★ Sixty years ago, writer Ian Fleming created a story of mad-cap inventions, spies, and abducted children, forced to be saved by a decidedly British chap and his love interest with a pun-inspired name. And yes, … Continue reading Review: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – The Edinburgh Playhouse
https://youtu.be/Tj0NtV3nVY0?list=PLOCmLnR_yij2SbasbRP1cF2GspEetRKxh The Flock - Concept and Direction by Roser Lopez Espinosa Moving Cloud - Choreography by Sofia Nappi Edinburgh Festival Fringe Tickets ★★★★ Ask most of us what special gift we could wish for, and a significant portion would express our innate desire to fly. A celebration of two company's roots in Scottish culture and … Continue reading Review: The Flock and Moving Cloud – Scottish Dance Theatre, Dundee Rep
Directed by Jamie Lloyd Written by William Shakespeare Review by Annie Aslett Tickets ★★★ The long-awaited curtain (actually an enormous metal gate) is finally up on Jamie Lloyd’s production of Romeo and Juliet at the Duke of York Theatre. Quoted in the show’s programme, Lloyd remarks on his evolution as a director and an emerging new philosophy for the Jamie Lloyd Company: he seeks … Continue reading Review: Romeo & Juliet – The Duke of York’s Theatre, London
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics by Tim Rice Directed by Izzy Ponsford ★★★ Locating the humanity, the extremes within the psychology of biblical figures, Jesus Christ Superstar breathes an intentional juxtaposition into politics, the church, misplaced adoration, and now gender composites. One of the most successful, indeed complicated, sung-through western musicals – Andrew Lloyd Webber and … Continue reading Jesus Christ Superstar – Churchill Theatre
https://youtu.be/ZdLseDHj8to Written by Arthur Miller Directed by Josie Rose Embleton, Tazy Harrison-Moore and Catriona Maclachlan ★★★★★ There’s a figurative list of productions in critical circles, of shows and titles that (for lack of a better descriptive) make eyes roll or force exhales of breath. They’re the titans of theatre, particularly attractive to the amateur dramatic … Continue reading All My Sons – Teviot Row House
