Firebird post-show video and photos: Back in the USSR with a true-life forbidden love story
On a Soviet Air Force Base in occupied Estonia in the 1970s, a conscripted private falls in love with a young maverick fighter pilot. The true-life love story that enraged Vladimir Putin now gets its stage premiere at London's King's Head Theatre.
Belly of the Beast post-show video and photos: Do schools demand conformity?
One of the most sobering statistics in Belly of the Beast's programme note comes from The School Report 2017: 84% of trans students, including non-binary individuals, self harmed, and 45% attempted suicide.
Myrninerest post-show Q&A photos: Who was Madge Gill and what is her legacy?
Stop what you’re doing and Google Madge Gill right now. This fascinating woman and self-taught artist, the subject of the sixth in James Kenworth’s Newham Plays series, is worthy of your time.
Man in the Rain post-show video and photos: Theatre as therapy, Shakespeare for the soul
I first met actor Tony Bell twenty years ago thanks to Propeller Theatre, the hugely successful all-male Shakespearean ensemble. He now returns to the stage in a deeply personal, self-penned solo show.
The Forsyte Saga post-show video and photos: How to breathe theatrical life into a literary mammoth
If not through the 1932 Nobel Prize-winning nine-novel literary classic, many audience members will be familiar with John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga through its serial TV adaptations. The stage premiere gives it a new twist.
Wiesenthal post-show video and photos: Remembering the Holocaust and hunting Nazis
Eleven million people died during the Holocaust, six million of them Jews. Simon Wiesenthal survived and then dedicated the rest of his life to preserving the memory of, and seeking justice for, those who did not.
Jupiter’s Ghost post-show video and photos: What happens when the line between AI and human blurs?
Two of the most urgent issues facing the world today - climate change and the dizzying acceleration of Artificial Intelligence - collide in Jupiter's Ghost, Tani Gill's dystopian drama with dance, which premiered at London's Cockpit Theatre.
Marie Curie post-show video and photos: Where’s the science in musical theatre?
Before chairing this discussion for Marie Curie at Charing Cross Theatre, I was racking my brains trying to think of other musicals about science. Films and plays aplenty. But musicals?
Drag Baby post-show video and photos: Celebrating queer families in Pride month
There were multiple art-imitating-life revelations and resonances during the post-show talk for Grace Carroll's new play Drag Baby, about a drag queen considering sperm donation for an ex-girlfriend.
Kunstler post-show video and photos: Getting justice for war protestors
The timing of this overdue European premiere of Jeffrey Sweet’s 2013 biographical play about the American civil rights lawyer William Kunstler (1919-1995), best known for his defence of Vietnam War protestors in the 1960s, is remarkable.
