Tag: play
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Moormaid @ Arcola Theatre*
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.arcolatheatre.com/event/moormaid/ Running until: 19th May 2018 Production photos by: Anika Wagner Although the show has a short run time of just 95 minutes, Marion Bott’s play Moormaid tries to pack an emotive punch in order to drive the story along. At the start of the play we meet art teacher Melissa…
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The Gulf @ Tristan Bates Theatre*
Rating: ⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.tristanbatestheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-gulf Running until: 5th May 2018 Production photos by: Rachael Cummings Audrey Cefaly’s play The Gulf is making its European premiere at the very intimate Tristan Bates Theatre in Covent Garden. The play follows Kendra and Betty, a couple who spend the entire play on a boat being hostile to each…
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Pressure @ Park Theatre*
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.parktheatre.co.uk/whats-on/pressure Running until: 28th April 2018 Production photos by: Robert Day David Haig leads a fantastic cast in his own play which takes place in one weather forecast room ahead of D-Day in June 1944. Based on a true story, Haig plays Group Captain James Stagg, a meteorologist hired by General…
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Mad As Hell @ Jermyn Street Theatre*
Rating: Running until: 24th February 2018 Tickets and more information: http://www.jermynstreettheatre.co.uk/show/mad-as-hell/ Production Photos by: Eddie Otchere As the National Theatre plays home to a stage adaptation of the Oscar winning Network, in Piccadilly is the small Jermyn Street Theatre which is currently home to a play about the Oscar winning actor who starred in the original…
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Strangers In Between @ Trafalgar Studios 2
The King’s Head Theatre concludes their West End season with Tommy Murphy’s three-hander play Strangers In Between. Set in Australia, the play is about Shane who has fled his hometown to leave his troubled family behind. Adam Spreadbury-Maher, the artistic director of the King’s Head Theatre, has directed an excellent coming of age comedy about…
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The Twilight Zone @ Almeida Theatre
Based on the hit series which premiered on CBS in 1959 and ran for five seasons containing 156 episodes, The Twilight Zone a science-fiction anthology series set in a fifth dimension of space and time. Going into the play I knew very little about the background But what I was intrigued most by the production…
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Quick Fire Questions | Belinda Lang in Duet For One.
Tom Kempinski’s award winning play Duet For One is currently on a strictly limited UK tour until 18th November. Having already stopped off in Birmingham, Cambridge and Richmond, the play is just about to finish its run in Edinburgh before finishing up in Malvern and Chichester. The play follows Stephanie Abrahams, a concert violinist who…
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Saint George and the Dragon @ the National Theatre
Saint George and the Dragon is a new play by Rory Mullarkey that takes the Patron Saint of England and rewrites the folk tale. The National website describes the play as a “folk tale for an uneasy nation”, which I think is spot on, particularly in the times of Brexit. As Saint George continues to…
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Thebes Land @ the Arcola Theatre
After much acclaim in 2016, Daniel Goldman directs his hit adaptation of Sergio Blanco’s play back at the Arcola Theatre as part of the CASA Latin American Theatre Festival which celebrates theatre made by Latin American artists. Thebes Land follows a playwright is trying to stage a play he has written based on a young…
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The Ferryman @ Gielgud Theatre
Back in 2013, I saw my first much hyped play by Jez Butterworth – Mojo at the Harold Pinter Theatre where the entire play was set in a club, in Soho in 1995 and weaved together the pasts of 6 characters in a short space of time. The Ferryman has a similar approach but set…
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