Four Weigh-ins and a Funeral is set predominantly during the Slimming World weigh-in classes. The writer and director Emma Burnell has based the play on her weight-loss journey. Focusing on the support and kindness that she found and continues to have within her own Slimming World group. The cast of…

Make it Shimmy Productions present FAYGELE directed by Hannah Chissick. FAYGELE is based on a real event that happened within the Playwrights community. Much of the storyline echoes his own experience as a “closeted gay Orthodox Jewish Man” who was married with four children and trapped inside a world that…

“I See Me and Meryl Streep” is a new comedy cabaret from Australia, about a young girl prepping for GCSE Drama. She’s been given a task, to emulate and prepare a presentation based on her acting idol (sounds easy right?). Spoiler: her idol is Meryl Streep, and is not Selena…

Stephen Rea‘s debut at the Barbican Theatre is a hypnotic and profound performance in Samuel Beckett’s one-man play Krapp’s Last Tape. Stephen Rea recorded his voice twelve years ago in anticipation of landing the role in the future,  the forethought paid off. Rea realised that the sound of his voice…

“Isosceles” is a thriller set in remote Turkey, featuring Ryan (Ashley Gunstock), an oil consultant who frequently works overseas, and his wife Lidia (Natalie Roles), a London-based sculptor. During her visit, Lidia is frustrated by Ryan’s excessive precautions and mocks his concern over surgical flight socks for DVT, green pool…

The original mechanical shark used in the film Jaws had been originally designed to be used in a studio freshwater tank. Director Steven Spielberg decided to film at sea. This meant it worked less productively in salt water. The play The Shark is Broken is set during the times that the three…

Dance company Sasha Waltz & Guests and London Sinfonietta join forces to present their vision of Terry Riley’s In C at the Queen Elizabeth Hall Southbank. In Terry Riley’s minimalist classic In C every musician is given a sequence of 53 musical phrases. Each then repeats a phrase for a…

Richard Obrien’s cult classic, The Rocky Horror Show was first produced in 1973 and has been doing the rounds ever since. The current touring version is a virtual rerun of the same polished technicolour rendition that has been running for the last 10 years or so and is no worse…