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Felix Barrett, Punchdrunk’s artistic director, said that making a live video game is “the holy grail for me”. Punchdrunk will use technology to bring the game to life, complete with…

Punchdrunk’s new production is called LANDER 23 and is a fully immersive space adventure that is very much intended to be a video game brought to life

Although nominally a solo show, a large degree of compulsory audience participation makes it a group endeavour. As the character progresses through life and their own struggles with depression, we’re…

Mostly I felt sorry for the cast, which includes two fine-voiced former queens from Six. Aimie Atkinson is Mozart’s older sibling, musical pathfinder and protector Nannerl, saddled here with a…

Adapted by Tom Morton-Smith (Oppenheimer) from Hayao Miyazaki’s celebrated 1988 animated feature film, the production is directed by Improbable Co-Founder, Phelim McDermott, and has won six Olivier Awards. The cast…

Sean Hayes, best known as the bitchily bright-eyed Jack McFarland in sitcom Will and Grace, transforms himself here into Oscar Levant, the depressive, drug-addicted pianist, actor and wit who was…

Secret Cinema take on the legendary Grease for an ambitious audience participation show which – if you like this kind of thing – will be the one that you want

The spiky, alien succulent – metaphor klaxon! – was the gift of an Australian ex he loved but lost through his chronic unadventurousness. In a classic case of telling us…

Daniel Evans, a two-time Olivier Award winner, is directing the production, with Playful Productions, Royal Shakespeare Company, and Elizabeth Williams as producers. Williams described Duffy’s play as “brilliant in conception…

“The pound story is that the brewery actually wanted £120,000 pounds for it, and I was 23 years old, I didn’t have £120,000 pounds; that was a lot of money…