Review: Ha
"leaves a lasting impression of skill, bravery, and thoughtful, disciplined theatrical craft"
Genre: World Theatre 0
Review: Practice of Zen
Theatre Ronin stage a show in Chinese inspired by the world of fictional martial arts that has made Hong Kong cinematography famous all over the world.
Review: La Guerre de Troie n’aura pas lieu
An engaging play about the manipulation of public opinion to satisfy the taste for war of a tiny elite
Review: La Femme des Sables
A dance piece investigating how pain becomes a catalyst for spiritual enlightenment
Review: Push and Pull
An extraordinary performance exploring the push and pull dynamic of a relationship touching deep emotional strings
Review: Formosa Viva
A catchy dance theatre performance displaying Taiwan's historical heritage through movement and dance
Review: Amour Utopique
A solo clown circus show with the potential to grow into something more refined and impactful
Review: Blanc de Blanc
A poetic solo mime performance rich in visual symbolism, drawing us into the depths of an artist’s unconscious.
Review: Khawla Ibraheem A Knock on the Roof
What and who can you choose is something more people are forced to decide as the century rolls. But Mariam’s plight is specific, ongoing, now far worse and essential viewing.
Review: Relief Camp
A play that vividly portrays the clashes between ethnic communities in Manipur as the tragic culmination of a long history of subjugation by colonial and state powers.
Review: Glitch in the Myth
A timeless archetype reimagined through a woman's perspective, capable of resonating with audiences everywhere
Review: Agleyum Cliyopatrayum
An original blend of physical theatre and Indian ritualistic elements conveys the unconscious emotional worlds of two archetypal female characters.
Review: Women Who Blow on Knots
As fine a realisation as anyone could manage. The immediacy, cries, reveals are inherently theatrical and precious. A must-see.
Review: The Unlikely Secret Agent
How it ends I urge you to discover in this sizzling paean to humanity.
Review: ECHO
Ultimately, the most telling line ”We are all immigrants across time” defines what remains an extraordinary experience
Review: Banging Denmark
This production’s 100 minutes are so absorbing you’re not quite sure if the time’s stopped, or just your preconceptions. Stunning, a must see.
Review: Refilwe
At just 45 minutes, a delightfully adapted fairy-tale, adapted in its turn. Bisola Aalbi’s rewrite is a lively, timely take on a silent culture war to make people of all ages think again.
Review: Phantasmagoria
There seem enough potential endings to make what happens neither predictable, nor entirely obvious. A first-rate cast with enough residual fascination in the characters they create to wonder at what life, and not just Deepika Arwind, might do to them. The terror is existential and we should ask what it might do to us.
Review: The Retreat
It’s extraordinary this play’s waited 27 years to arrive. But that’s true of three plays mounted by the Finborough this year alone. Another reason to beat a path there.
Review: Rice
Do see this work of understated virtuosity, rich in character, substance, a shape-shifting singularity.
Review: Statements After an Arrest under the Immortality Act
An important, scorching revival, Statements explores the limits of love in a forcing-house of oppression and racism.
Review: Barber Shop Chronicles
Barber Shop Chronicles is a breath-taking revelation for those of us who had small inkling of a world in miniature.
Review: #AIWW The Arrest of Ai WeiWei
Brenton powerfully concertinas a continent’s politics and one artist’s refraction of it. Wong is outstanding
Review: Maim
A hymnotic theatrical panic for the land, which exposes us to the language and the lyrical beauty of our own country.
Review: A Life On The Silk Road
An Epic and Unique Journey Through Dance, Music, Puppetry, and Physical Theatre
