Dance of Death

Maeterlinckian symbolism and Munch’s angst find their way into Strindberg’s play, which dissects the everyday hell that is marriage and other people. He wrote Dance

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Hot House

Hot House is the new work by Richard Chappell Dance, which premièred last night to a full house. The company celebrates its 10-year anniversary and

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The Tragedy of Macbeth

The Almeida Theatre’s 2021 production of Macbeth, available online for a brief spring 2023 season, is a dark and savage reading of the play. It

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Hedda

It’s gratifying, at a time when light musicals so dominate mainstream theatre, to find a relatively small company tackling one of the dramatic masterpieces, and

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The Tragedy of Macbeth

Say what you like about Macbeth but the play is indestructible. Flabbergast Theatre has thrown the seemingly unimaginable at it—clowns, mud, party hats and puppets—and

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Swan Lake

Peter Wright and Galina Samsova’s 1981 production of the perennial favourite Swan Lake never fails to enchant. Gothic and sumptuous, dark and light: Tchaikovsky’s romantic

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Heathers the Musical

Heathers the Musical is a dark, dark comedy shown in Technicolor. Despite an uncomfortably difficult subject matter, Andy Fickman’s directing still manages to hook us

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Time

Gaynor O’Flynn, whose show Time premièred this week, could be considered someone to admire. She has decades of experience as an artist, film-maker and campaigner

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Love It If We Beat Them

This new political drama by Rob Ward, billed as football, politics and the labour of love, is set in spring 1996. Football-wise, this certainly hits

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