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Sadler’s Wells East transforms into a night club in this collaboration between boundary-blurring choreographer Sharon Eyal, creative partner Gai Behar, London dancers Young and club DJ Call Super. It offers a compelling fusion of nightlife and contemporary performance. Eyal and Behar met in a nightclub in the late 90s. Over time, they have sought to…
Founded over 40 years ago by three young Black British men, Leeds-based Phoenix Dance Theatre presents Inside Giovanni’s Room at Sadler’s Wells East as part of a UK tour. The show is a sensual, mesmerisingly rhythmic and emotional retelling of the James Baldwin novel, Giovanni’s Room. American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin, born in 1924 in Harlem, New York,…
Just For One Day transferring from the Old Vic and now playing at the Shaftesbury Theatre revisits the seminal Live Aid fundraising concert of 1985 as it approaches its 40th anniversary. It is a lively, loud look at Bob Geldof and the Live Aid concerts that boasts thrilling music and manages to avoid hagiography. (As…
Diveen Henry is the Miss Myrtle in Miss Myrtle’s Garden and is the heart of this tender, witty and devastating play that explores the crumbling awareness that haunts many at the end of their lives, currently in its premiere run at the Bush Theatre. Director Taio Lawson and writer Danny James King cleverly shepherd the…
Based on over 70 interviews with nurses of all ages, backgrounds and nationalities, Tending at the Riverside Studios tenderly and powerfully gives true voice to the 40,000 nurses in the NHS. Written by El Blackwood and directed by John Livesey, this piece of theatre is essential viewing for anyone who feels they should bear witness…
It’s the 1980s and 1990s and as the terrifying impacts of global warming became ever more apparent, the United Nations summits on climate change are perhaps Earth’s only hope. Kyoto (premiering at the RSC and now in its second run at @SohoPlace) centres on those conferences but in particular the efforts of one man: real-life…
A Brief Case of Crazy comes to the Riverside Studios after being called a “hidden gem” by the FringeReview at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Hidden gem is an apt description, as in this show the Skedaddle Company (Rowan , Lennie Longworth and Samuel Cunningham) deliver a delightful movement-theatre based treat. Inspired by the likes of Buster…
This is an epic novel which my Book Group loved. It is very long so make sure to choose a time when everyone will have plenty of time to read. Strengths are that it does not shy away from difficult stories, troubled times or unhappy endings. The reader feels a part of the sweep of…
None of our book group would say that we enjoyed this but we are all delighted that we read it. Nobel Prize-winning Han Kang gives an important insight into an event in South Korean history that none of us knew about it. Even more important, it gave us an insight into the grief, resilience, internal…
Initially launched to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the ubiquitous NOW That’s What I Call Music compilation tapes, NOW That’s What I Call A Musical is a piece of fun and cheesy nostalgia. Set simultaneously in Birmingham in 1989 and 2009, this is unashamedly a juke box musical. The plot is fairly flimsy and relies…
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