Monthly Archives: November 2018

November 25

What Santa Does Other Days of the Year – The Genesian make us laugh like kids. (Theatre Review)

What Santa Does Other Days of the Year 23 November to 8 Dacember. The Gensian Theatre. You can grab your tickets here.  The annual pantomime is a staple of every long-lived theatre. They are smaller affairs today than the original Augustus Harris concoctions from London’s Drury theatre started in 1879, but they still contain a […]

November 20

The Serpents Teeth – A peaceful reminder of the costs of war. (Theatre Review)

The Serpents Teeth Hasemann, Ball & Radda Productions and bAKEHOUSE Theatre company 9 – 24 November. You can grab your tickets here. Images: Clare Hawley In recent days, French president Emmanuel Macron has called for an EU army to compliment NATO. He has been supported by the outgoing Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel who, in her […]

November 17

The Dance of Death – Judy Davis draws the Kierkegaard out of Strindberg. (Theatre Review)

The Dance of Death Belvoir Theatre 10 November to 23 December You can grab your tickets here. Images: Lisa Tomasetti Just as great Norwegian artists of the late nineteenth century (Ibsen, Jornson and Munch) were deeply influenced by the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, so we see his breath all over August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death. […]

November 08

Whose Uterus is it Anyway? – Georgie Adamson and The Clinic. (Theatre Review)

Whose Uterus is it Anyway? 505 Theatre FeshWorksFEMME October 30 – November 10.  You can grab your tickets here. Images: Jasmin Simmons Tellingly absent from Georgie Adamson’s waiting room game show in Whose Uterus is it Anyway? is the female aged between forty-nine and sixty-nine, even though she is the second largest social demographic and […]

November 06

The Feather in the Web – Nick Coyle and a woman in love. (Theatre Review)

The Feather in the Web Griffin Theater Company Stables Theatre 5 October – 17 November You can grab your tickets here. Images: Brett Boardman If Kimberly (Claire Lovering) is in any trouble in The Feather in the Web, it is less from Miles (Gareth Davies) and more from her writer Nick Coyle. Filled with ambition […]

November 02

Wyrd: The Season of the Witch – Ninefold change Macbeth forever. (Theatre Review)

Wyrd: The season of the Witch PACT theatre for Emerging artists and Ninefold Theatre Company You can find out more about this production here. Images: Liam O’Keefe It can be argued, since all theatre is a kind of parody of life no matter how verisimilar it may be, the most honest theatre might be that […]