London-based Theatre Company of Sanctuary, Phosphoros Theatre, depict autobiographical stories of migration and cultural integration in ‘Pizza Shop Heroes’, on at HOME as part of Orbit Festival. A cast of four male refugee actors (and one female...
Queens of Sheba is a tour de force. Four female actors play a multitude of characters that transport us to a world of fun, hope, observation and yearning. Tosin Alabi, Eshe Asante, Kokoma (koko) Kwaku and Elisha Robin thoroughly deserve that extra...
Imagine being in a room. The room is filled with your peers. Broadly speaking you don’t know them. Instructions in an envelope explain that you’re now a Game Show. You’re either the Host, a Team Captain, the Stage Manager or a contestant. This was...
A word of warning: if you’ve got a flight booked anytime soon, I wouldn’t recommend going to see the accident did not take place. YESYESNONO’s show – acclaimed at the Edinburgh Fringe and now on at HOME as part of Orbit Festival – uses the premise...
Sh!t Theatre’s Drink Rum With Expats is an alcohol fuelled cornucopia of corruption, devastation and political intrigue. This hour long dramatisation is fresh from its Edinburgh run and tells the tale of Rebecca Biscuit and Louise Mothersole’s...
This year, HOME’S Orbit Festival explores the ‘prevailing divide’ between people and how it can be conquered. I doubt that there’s a show in the programme that could be more joyfully effective at bringing an audience together than Paul O’Donnell’s...