Review: On This Side of Time
Evocative and fascinating! Original contemporary choreography with eclectic music.
Genre: Dance 0
Review: Kin
Well performed and highly skilled, Kin is a wonderfully entertaining, and theatrical show that draws you in immediately.
Review: Cirkopolis
Highly skilled entertainment. Lyrical, dramatic, beautiful, spirited, exciting and intriguing!
Review: Death City
Stunningly choreographed Korean dance where death lingers round every wrist flick.
Review: The Tempest
You won’t forget the spectacle. But it’s the lonely spectators of their own powers that’ll beat on your mind. Gregory Doran’s RSC production realizes that more fully than ever before. Simon Russell Beale’s riven letting-go of a man’s potency relinquished along with his moral son sounds deeper plummets still.
Review: The Buddy Holly Story
The Buddy Holly Story is a superb show, the fast-track to know Buddy Holly’s world with storyline and songs that influenced and were influenced in turn. Alex Fobbester’s Buddy Holly inhabits his role with verve and heart-stopping sensitivity. There’s room to craft an even more compelling story, but as a show its generosity good-humoured inclusiveness proves irresistible.
Review: Wonderland
The ingredients are there: it’s a magical idea, and just needs a quieter rationale and – to make it a great show - a few more memorable numbers. But if you care for musicals, see it for an outstanding clutch of performers and a dream of something perennial.
Review: Tap Into Health (TIH): Movin’ With Melvin!
Just to meet Texan Movin' Melvin Brown is enough of a privilege to warrant this workshop worthy of being recommended.
Review: AY/NA Ceyda Tanc Dance Company
This world class contemporary dance is filled with both quick and unhurried graceful movement requiring real control, which is displayed in genuine abundance. Yet the themes are so highly contemporary and their skill-set so excellent that they surpass any contemporary dance performance I have seen, whilst holding to their very own distinctive form and style.
Review: Plan B for Utopia
With its low tech props, starkly minimal staging, and exquisite performance, Clevillé has constructed a piece that teeters between being hilarious, heart breaking, and intensely hopeful.
Review: Thoroughly Modern Millie
Plews and Wicks have created a musical powerhouse literally all-singing and dancing, of the highest West End standards. The quintet – and they blend magnetically together – of Clifton, Barrett, Rush, Glover and McDuff have stamped character and stomped bliss on this musical.
Review: Sunny Afternoon
What makes this outstanding is Penhall’s wit and deft charactering of core band and satellites who interact with the complexity of a play, the way the songs move the narrative forward and are given believable geneses. This outstanding musical deserves the awards its original incarnation garnered – and it brings back The Kinks forever sharing the peak of British pop with The Who, The Stones and pre-eminently The Beatles.
Review: Eurobeat
High production values and strong performances make this show fun for fans of Eurovision
Review: Until the Lions
A powerful and breathtaking production, featuring outstanding performances from members of the Akram Kham Company
Review: Smoke and Mirrors
Smoke and Mirrors is a must see. An exquisitely conceived, ultra contemporary blend of circus and dance, it's a wake up call, an intensely radical act.
Review: Follow the Faun
A forty-five minute acid trippy escapade of movement, music, lights and human connection
Review: Borderlands
Meditative and mysterious performance set in the beautiful grounds of Dryburgh abbey
Review: Falling in love with Frida
An intimate and evocative performance that layers text, music and dance.
