Decent two-hand musical drama about wanting to end it all.

Taking on Kafka is always a challenge, so anyone attempting that feat always deserves admiration. Taking on the work he never truly completed is even more of a feat, but one that Old Dog Theatre do with enough imagination that, in general, is enough to suggest that it isn’t a lost cause to be so ambitious. That imagination is prominent from the opening scene. The majority of the cast take up duties as puppeteers, walking the central character, K, through ...

In 1991 four Austrian nurses, played by Evelyn Edwards, Andrea Helene, Aurora Henning and author Jessica Ross, were charged with the killing of 49 patients between 1983 and 1989. Although this was the number of those ascertained, it is believed that the real count might have been over 200. Their technique was simple; one nurse would restrain the patient and pinch their nose, whilst the other would pour water into their mouth until they drowned. With most of the patients ...

Heart-breaking and suffocating

A punchy and fun production of a classic musical

a near-metaphorical break-neck ride through one of the most daunting challenges of parenthood

Science meets love in a hilarious one-woman musical comedy

Sexuality and fascism meet in a true story that doesn’t quite fly

Irksome but masterfully embodied by two brilliant performers.

An intelligent and thoroughly researched dramatization