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Retrograde by Ryan Calais Cameron is a tense, thoughtful and compelling insight into the difficult intersection of McCarthyism and racism and its impact on the, then emerging, black actor Sidney Poitier (Ivanno Jeremiah). Transferring from the Kiln theatre to a West End run at the Apollo, the 90 minutes play through perhaps one of the…
The role of sport in the national psyche is a curious and culturally unique one. New Zealand has its love of All Blacks, America has the Super Bowl and England has football. Won once, in 1966, but with a constant expectation that it should be “coming home” ever since: amazement and fury when it does…
Based on Annie Ernaux’s 2008 historical memoir Les Années, The Years examines the life of one woman from 1941 through to 2006. Her personal milestones are portrayed alongside significant world events; reminding audiences that all of us living at the same time share experiences and that those experiences in turn shape us. The play has perhaps…
Sisyphean Quick Fix comes to the Riverside Studios after being Awarded BEST PLAY and Theatre Weekly’s Best of the Fest ’24 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2024. Written by Bettina Paris, who also stars as Krista, it is based on her own lived experience. Tina Rizzo plays her devoted sister Pip, left behind in…
Wouldn’t It Be Loverly if people outside Ealing realised just what a jewel the Questor’s Theatre is? While an amateur theatre, shows such as its recent My Fair Lady demonstrate that it is capable of producing shows which rival the West End for both imagination and quality. It was at The Questor’s, for example, where…
A founding member of the Bush Theatre’s Young Company, Coral Wylie is both writer and performer in Lavender, Hyacinth, Violet, Yew currently playing its World Premiere at the Bush Theatre. An emerging talent, their writing and acting skills bring sincerity and realism in this tender portrait of the complexities of family life in a changing…
Kenrex at the Southwark Playhouse is part concert, part true crime podcast and part play. It is largely a one-man-show (Jack Holden), enhanced by on stage music (Jack Patrick Elliott) and sound recordings (Giles Thomas). Written by Holden and director Ed Stambollouian and subtitled “A True Crime Thriller”, it is a riveting, adventurous, genre-bending tour…
A focused look at Mary Todd Lincoln, Mrs President, is currently playing at Charing Cross Theatre. Advertising promises an “intimate and politically charged portrait of America’s most misunderstood First Lady” but unfortunately this is a show which is also hard to understand due to narrative jumps and other authorial (John Ransom Phillips) and directorial (Bronagh…
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