Axis Ballymun, DublinMixing childhood memories, songs and Shakespeare, Michael Patrick delivers a one-man show about the reality of being given four years to liveMichael Patrick may not live long enough to play King Lear, so a rendition of Lear’s storm…
Continue ReadingThe revered performance artist returns with three arresting projects for stage and screen, each cultivating hope for the condition of the planetPerformance artist Bryony Kimmings doesn’t hold back. If something is troubling her then it invariably finds…
Continue ReadingThe Irish actor returns to the stage in farmhouse drama The Brightening Air, stars of The Jewel in the Crown reunite for Creditors and choreographer Mark Bruce reanimates FrankensteinAlmost 30 years after The Weir made him the toast of Theatreland, Con…
Continue ReadingThe Other Palace, LondonGeorgina Castle and Josh St Clair make a likable couple who endlessly replay their first meeting but this adaptation needs more emotional punchPerhaps it’s unfair to compare this new musical with the incomparable Curious Case of…
Continue ReadingWhen artist Krishna Istha and their partner went to sperm banks they were told ‘eye colour, height, PhD or no PhD’; wanting to know a donor’s values led to the creation of their live show First TrimesterGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailFor th…
Continue ReadingTron theatre, Glasgow Uma Nada-Rajah writes with polemical force from firsthand experience of a health system on its knees A black hole sign is the dark area of a CT scan that suggests a haemorrhage on the brain. A black hole cou…
Continue ReadingRose theatre, Kingston upon ThamesAva Pickett’s modern-day adaptation of the novel adds pop music, farce and clowning but lacks gimlet-eyed observationsAn early blast of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance sets the mood of this 21st-century take on Jane Austen’s c…
Continue ReadingThe frontman is realising his stage dreams by starring in Edgecity which draws on playwright gobscure’s experience of sleeping rough. The pair talk about an urgent, explosive showIn the late 1980s, fresh from being kicked out of school, Sleaford Mods f…
Continue ReadingThe frontman is realising his stage dreams by starring in Edgecity which draws on playwright gobscure’s experience of sleeping rough. The pair talk about an urgent, explosive showIn the late 1980s, fresh from being kicked out of school, Sleaford Mods f…
Continue ReadingSoho theatre, LondonThe standup has some effective material about the usual middle-aged gripes, but never quite coalesces these scattershot routines into a well-rounded wholeNobody ever listens to what put-upon mums have to say, says Esther Manito, and…
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