With the festival of Halloweâen fast approaching what better way to spend the weekend before the 31 October than in the grisly comfort of not one but two supernatural horror stories. The Nunkie Theatre Companyâs âM R James Projectâ brings us âDead...
Less of a drama and more an exercise in pop culture storytelling, Rick Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran is, in the words of writer/performer Javaad Alipoor, partly about ârich people acting like dicks.â But these arenât ordinary rich...
Nuclear Future is an austere call to arms. It takes as its base the insecurities of its lead (and only) actor Astrid, played adroitly by Leda Douglas. She stands solitary on stage flanked by two white panels exploding towards the audience, as if...
In a 1994 article entitled, âDiscussing the Undiscussableâ, New Yorker critic, Arlene Croce, explained her refusal to review a piece by choreographer, Bill T. Jones by accusing him of presenting âvictim artâ. Jonesâs show, Still/Here, employed...
Director William Friedkin is often portrayed as an erratic genius. Heâs made some amazing films (The French Connection, To Live and Die in LA) and some outright turkeys (Jade, The Guardian). But the film which most people associate with his name is...
Disney on Ice is back on tour with its biggest show yet, celebrating 100 Years of Magic. âI thought weâd have to go to Disneyland for this!â says my 7-year-old theatre buddy, wide-eyed as Mouse-ter of Ceremonies Mickey Mouse and his sweetheart...
âItâs True, Itâs True, Itâs Trueâ is a remarkable portrayal of Artemisia Gentileschiâs experiences during a trail in 17th century Italy. Born in Rome to Orazio Gentileschi and Prudentia Montone, Artemisia was a prodigious painter who, as it now...
Flo, the most junior of doctors, wearing her scrubs, already weary, stressed, overloaded with information and feeling out of her depth, excluded from case conferences by her white-coated seniors, is in need of a nightâs rest, to take it all in, to...
The Lowry saw the transformation into the present day of a truly great female character in Cordelia Lynnâs adaptation of Henrik Ibsenâs play Hedda Gabler. This play asks what we inherit, what we endure and how we carry our history. Holly Race...
âI hope you have not become robots but humanisedâ (or in Cocteauâs native tongue “J’espĂšre que vous nâĂȘtes pas devenu des robots mais humanisĂ©”) comes the call from the grave. This was Jean Cocteauâs message filmed in 1962 â a...
Moses Kabunga
Steve Timms
Martin Thomasson
Carmel Thomason
Liz Ratcliffe