At the beginning of Labour’s Lost Love co-deviser Rebeka Dio sings a song with a great deal of foreshadowing and meta commentary that is gently amusing. It covers a number of ideas, including ‘avant-garde is hard’, and I doubt many would disagree, as creating something that is cutting edge with a sense of anarchy is incredibly difficult to pull off effectively.Yet oddly this is ‘avant-Garde for beginners’, and while it touches upon a lot of subjects it does so very ...
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Review: Instructions For A Teenage Armageddon, The Garrick Theatre
The story it tells is one that needs to be heard, and one that needs to be told more often.
Read More »Review: Holly Spillar: HOLE, Soho Theatre
A deeply personal hour of comedy about a complex subject matter.
Read More »Review: Places I Never Think About, Applecart Arts
Often funny, strange and quietly beautiful.
Read More »Review: The Witches, National Theatre
The Witches starts off looking like it might be a Matilda-sized hit
Read More »Review: Flowers for Mrs Harris, Riverside Studios
A musical with a gentle charm, this may well entertain on a quiet Sunday afternoon, but it lacks the depth of the original book.
Read More »Review: Trompe L’Oeil, The Other Palace
A musical which proves that Trump is in no way "beyond satire"
Read More »Review: I M E D E A, Stone Nest
Sulayman Al Bassam's I M E D E A modernises the classic Greek myth
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