Golda Rosheuvel and Letitia Wright are a pleasure to watch, but this short play still feels 20 minutes too long
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London’s biggest theatre to open in Greenwich next year with 3,000 seats
by News Roomby News RoomTroubadour Theatres plans to open a new venue with two auditoriums next to the cable car station on Greenwich Peninsula
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This unique show features sound work by Foley artists which encourages audiences to close their eyes and be plunged into the world of a cow and a deer
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Carolina Bianchi will drug herself unconscious on stage — but shock is not the point
by News Roomby News RoomThe first half of the performance, The Bride, is structured as a talk, with Bianchi circling through Bacca’s story and those of other women who met terrible, violent deaths at…
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Alicia Vikander: “I’m rehearsing my play with an AI Andrew Lincoln!”
by News Roomby News RoomAI, however, has proved transformative — she has even created an AI version of her co-star Andrew Lincoln whom she can rehearse with at home. Sorry, what? “There are apps…
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Deaf Republic at Royal Court Jerwood Theatre : ‘hugely powerful portrait of occupation’
by News Roomby News RoomUsing sign language, video, puppetry and even aerial circus skills, this portrait of wartime occupation builds from a slow start into something haunting and hugely powerful. It plays with perspective…
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Dracula rises again: Umi Myers on a new show with its teeth on the pulse
by News Roomby News RoomGo back to the book, however, and you find the vampire as a much more frightening figure, a repulsive killer who starts to stalk the streets of London, with his…
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‘It’s Evita but set in a psych ward’ — Maia Novi’s play Invasive Species lands in London
by News Roomby News RoomBut Novi doesn’t want to pretend her play offers any solutions. She has personally found London’s pubs and gay bars wonderful, its inhabitants friendly and approachable. Casting British actors who…
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The Chaos That Has Been and Will No Doubt Return review: full of sweaty urgency
by News Roomby News RoomOne of the key things I took away from this show is that Lutoners were known as Mad Hatters because fumes inhaled during the making of hats, the main local…
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Born With Teeth at Wyndham’s Theatre review: seductively clever work from Ncuti Gatwa
by News Roomby News RoomWe first see Will suspended by the wrists and Kit by the ankles, pleading for their lives against charges of treason and blasphemy. Video screens (with the lurid green tinge…