Reviews

Photo by Dan John Lloyd BULLYACHE’s evening of emotional ballads, expressed through a medley of dance mediums, knows its audience. When drag artist Barbs walks onto a reductive nightclub version [...]

Southern Charm …it’s with a sombre mood that I’m penning the penultimate blog of this quartet on Reality TV. This is partly because all the fizzy, heavy hitters are now on summer recess – [...]

Below Deck Down Under Let’s talk about islands, or at least distant places where the waterline is visible on waking, and sand, softer than a grainy sandwich in Margate, is a footstep from your [...]

Photo of Matthew Keeler, Rosie Strobel & Elliot Broadfoot by Alex Brenner. It’s time for a Bonaparty according to the vision of Charles Court Opera’s indefatigable composing/writing duo [...]

It’s nice to be invited to work by an emerging company in one of those of festivals that is teeming with new talent – it reminds me that we are all part of the same eco-system and experience [...]

Credit: Graeme Miall.   Social prescribers should take note of Clod Ensemble and Nu Civilisation Orchestra’s interactive dance extravaganza, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, hosted, [...]

My top 5 theatre and dance highlights of winter 2023/24 ~ in no particular order. These are shows I’ve reviewed, and have been chosen for the kind of holistic artistry that makes a [...]

Total Theatre saves the day! Immersive is making bank and fulfilling old ambition By Tamsin Flower   What do divisive composer Richard Wagner, The Tower of London and dancers dressed [...]

Sondheim/Lapine’s Into the Woods is a Dramatist’s wet dream. It would be difficult to find a show in which the mechanics of story-building are so clearly foregrounded and visualised. It has all [...]

  Under Milk Wood… July 2021.’ It is the tail-end of the lockdown everyone assumes is our last and theatres that can afford it have opened. Seeing Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre [...]