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to be broadcast on BBC4 next Sunday 25 October

Reading the blurb ahead of time, this show promised lots of blood. So, it shouldn’t have been too much of a surprise that clicking into the Zoom broadcast in advance of the 8pm start, the camera appeared to have a red filter on! Watching one of the cast continuously heaving into a bowl as they sat waiting for the real start time might have slightly put a lesser person than myself off their banana bread. (A banana bread that hadn’t ...

we caught up with Pepa to talk cooking, kickstarter and Peruvian cuisine

An ambitious and playful reworking of Shakespeare

Lockyer tells the story with Shakespearian aplomb

heading to the OSO Arts Centre in Barnes from 5-8 November

Masterful, engaging storytelling for dark wintry evenings

a play that you’d want to discuss in the bar afterwards

There are three ways in which theatre companies can respond to the current crisis. They can furlough as many staff as they’re allowed and squint down the tunnel hoping desperately for a glint of light at the end. They can reopen with a socially distanced audience, paring back productions to match the reduced income. Or they can produce something genuinely innovative: this is the approach taken by One Night Records, whose immersive promenade performance sees the audience admitted in groups ...

"London’s most exciting, socially distanced comedy, theatre and cabaret space"