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While the theatre world is currently excited about the casting of Elsa in Frozen the musical in London next year, the Park Theatre is celebrating the original Snow Queen with its Christmas production. Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale, said to be loose inspiration behind Frozen, gets a modern makeover in Charles Way’s adaptation, which runs... Continue Reading →
Exposing the little-known history of the Indian migrant labourers indentured to work on plantations around the world following the Abolition of Slavery, the award-winning Border Crossings brings The Great Experiment to audiences across London. This new work recounts the moment in history when more than two million Indians were indentured to replace slave labour in... Continue Reading →
Coming to Bridewell Theatre in the New Year, For the Sake of Argument follows the story of Eleanor Hickock, a passionate and argumentative polemical journalist who becomes the Iraq War’s chief evangelist. This hard-hitting production interrogates the power and danger of language, as one journalist’s words send a young man to enlist for the frontline.... Continue Reading →
There are just five weeks left to see Michael Frayn’s comedy Noises Off in Jeremy Herrin’s hit production at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End. The run will end on 4 January 2020. After watching from the wings a production of his 1970 farce The Two of Us with Richard Briers and Lynn Redgrave,... Continue Reading →
God is the King of the Universe, Creator of space and time and, in actual fact, pretty fed up too. Thousands of years after appearing to Moses at Mount Sinai to reveal the Ten Commandments, God has grown weary of them and the way they’ve been used throughout history, and so has inhabited the body... Continue Reading →
Mandy Picks a Husband, an autobiographical show written by and starring Amanda Broomell, opens at London's Canal Cafe Theatre next month. I caught up with Amanda to find out more. Can you tell me a bit about Mandy Picks a Husband? It’s an autobiographical account of my quest to find The One, which has been... Continue Reading →
Production images have been released for An Act of God, currently playing at the Vaults. After many millennia, and in just 90 minutes, God (award-winning comedian Zoe Lyons as seen on ‘Mock The Week’ and ‘Celebrity Masterchef’) assisted by her devoted angels Michael (Matt Tedford, aka ‘Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho’) and Gabriel (Tom Bowen,... Continue Reading →
Ellen McDougall directs her vivid adaptation of Valeria Luiselli’s dazzlingly original debut novel Faces in the Crowd, a bold and playful multi-layered story about identity, poetry, and nationality. The cast includes Jimena Larraguivel (TV’s Apple Tree Yard/ RSC’s Day of the Living) as The Woman, Neil D’Souza (Beginners/ TV’s Humans) as Husband, Anoushka Lucas (Jesus... Continue Reading →
Production images have been released for European Arts Company’s production of A Christmas Carol. A festive treat using the same script that Dickens performed from more than 150 years ago, this intimate and poignant production kicked off its UK tour earlier this week at Theatre Royal in Margate, and is heading across the country until... Continue Reading →
