“I’m feeling quite exhausted”: Lily Levinson encounters a dance festival that looks at the challenges of expressing care in a contact-starved era.
Lily Levinson
Articles by Lily Levinson
11 December 2020
Reviews
Review: Nine Lessons and Carols at Almeida Theatre
By Lily Levinson
Something to count on: Lily Levinson writes on Chris Bush’s collection of stories for and about dark times.
7 December 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Fabulist Fox Sister, Southwark Playhouse (online)
4th-5th December
By Lily Levinson
“I seancéd my ass off”: Lily Levinson reviews Luke Bateman and Michael Conley’s one-man musical about ‘sozzled, sweary’, Spiritualist sisters.
27 November 2020
Reviews
Review: A Passion Play by Margaret Perry (online)
By Lily Levinson
Hockey, tea-towels and God: Lily Levinson reviews a ‘careful and delicate production’ of Margaret Perry’s radio play about a burgeoning teenage romance.
18 November 2020
Features
“There is no recipe”: Cooking up community projects at Battersea Arts Centre
By Lily Levinson
Lily Levinson speaks to the artists, activists and participants working together to reimagine how BAC engages with its local community.
21 October 2020
Reviews
Review: small hours, IF Oxford and Oxford Playhouse
18th - 25th October
By Lily Levinson
Broken nights: Lily Levinson writes on Ava Wong Davies and Mandala Theatre’s ‘unsettling and theatrically imaginative’ digital play, exploring sleep disturbance.
6 October 2020
Reviews • Reviews
Review: The You Play – Small Acts from 45 North
By Lily Levinson
Internal voices: Lily Levinson encounters Rafaella Marcus’s intimate audio play, performed by Katherine Parkinson.
16 September 2020
Reviews • Reviews
Review: Letters at Gate Theatre/ Zoom
By Lily Levinson
Rain, sun, cloud: Lily Levinson reviews a letter-based performance that revisits the blurry days of lockdown.
13 December 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Pecsmas at the Yard Theatre
9th - 20th December
By Lily Levinson
Thrusting hope in our faces: Lily Levinson writes on watching Pecs Drag Kings’ Christmas show on election night.
12 December 2019
Reviews
Review: The Duchess of Malfi at Almeida Theatre
By Lily Levinson
A medicine cabinet of wonders: Lily Levinson writes on the themes of sickness and disease that fill Rebecca Frecknall’s take on Webster’s tragedy.
6 December 2019
Features
The Big House: “Believing in me when I didn’t believe in myself.”
By Lily Levinson
Housed in a former mirror factory, The Big House works with at-risk young people to make theatre that reflects their experiences. Lily Levinson talks to the participants in their new performance, 1st Luv.
23 November 2019
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Henry IV/ Richard III at the Globe
23rd November - 26th January
By Lily Levinson
‘Shakespearean civil war as Tarantino-esque entertainment’: Lily Levinson writes on Sean Holmes and Ilinca Radulian’s action-packed double-bill of history plays.
21 November 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: i will still be whole (when you rip me in half)
12 - 23 November
By Lily Levinson
‘a steady throb like the sound of your heart beat in the bath’: Lily Levinson writes on Ava Wong Davies’ lyrical exploration of a relationship between a daughter and her estranged mother.
19 November 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Kissing Rebellion, Ovalhouse
15th - 30th November
By Lily Levinson
‘It looks like mending, in a way’: Lily Levinson writes on Abigail Boucher and Carolyn Defrin’s dance theatre performance exploring intimacy and activism.
1 November 2019
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Germ Free Adolescent at the Bunker
By Lily Levinson
Pass it on: Lily Levinson writes on Natalie Mitchell’s kind-hearted play about OCD and teen relationships.