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Continue reading →: One Breath Before The End-The Glitch.
Stephen Leach’s sixty minute play, One Breath Before The End opens with a jolt: total darkness, then an almighty bang. When the lights snap on, we’re plunged into the grimy underbelly of an abandoned car park, littered with urban debris – a discarded tyre, a shopping trolley, chunks of broken concrete. It’s the…
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Continue reading →: Krapp’s Last Tape-Royal Court Theatre.New Playwright Leo Simpe-Asante, winner of the 2025 inaugural Royal Court Young Playwrights Award, opens each performance of Krapp’s Last Tape with his new play inspired by Samuel Beckett called Godot’s To-Do List. Shakeel Haakim offers an engaging and at times funny insight into where Godot got to. The voice…
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Continue reading →: Dark of the Moon-Charing Cross Theatre.Dark of the Moon is a show that wears its folklore roots proudly, drawing loosely from Scottish and English myth and the centuries‑old ballad Barbara Allen. Here, the tale is transplanted to the fictional Appalachian town of Buck Creek and the Smoky Mountains that loom above it — a setting…
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Continue reading →: Aesop’s Fables -The Fireside Folktales Barnes Fringe Festival.An endearing adaptation of a few of the children’s Aesop’s Fables are brought together in a delightful thirty five minute production aimed at families with small children. The classic story of the “Hare and the Tortoise” is a favourite. Where the over zealous and rather “cocky” Hare doesn’t understand anything…
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Continue reading →: Resurgam-The Fireside Folktales Barnes Fringe Festival.Dhara Paul bought her solo performance to The Fireside Folktales Barnes Fringe Festival called Resurgam. Paul combined narrative and songs to tell two stories about love and loss. The initial opening is the set in the newly built Thornfield Bar, and the audience is addressed as old friends and patrons…
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Continue reading →: The Little Broomstick Rider-The Fireside Folktales Barnes Fringe Festival.A Quarantined Paper Series by Neverbird Productions. The Little Broomstick Rider is an award-winning animated series and short film about a young boy called Linhard accused of witchcraft in 1620s Bavaria. Linhard is on trial in front of the court, being held by four god-fearing “noble elders” who are terrified of…
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Continue reading →: Lullabies and Love Stories-The Fireside Folktales Barnes Fringe Festival.Maya Catherine Foster delivers a captivating storytelling performance using traditional folk stories and folk songs and adds twists and darker turns to these tales. “Who and what is sacrificed on a hero’s quest? While embarking on his epic journey, a Hero is ensnared and confronted by a Spirit” The hero…
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Continue reading →: Barnum –Woking Theatre.Some shows aim for spectacle, some for heart — Barnum cheerfully decides to do both, and for the most part it succeeds. This is a bright, good‑natured musical with plenty to enjoy for the whole family, especially younger theatregoers who will enjoy the circus acts woven through the evening. One…
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Continue reading →: Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil-The Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh.Adapted for the stage by Gary McNair, this deeply Scottish production about football support attracted an audience of football fans chattering about their teams before the show. Following your local side is not rational, almost never rewarding, and yet it somehow becomes stitched into the fabric of a life. Based…
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