Give it time: Ben Kulvichit writes on how durational performances are perfectly suited to the present moment.
Reviews
21 August 2020
Reviews • Dance • Redux Reviews
Redux review: Manon
By Ka Bradley
Come to the party: Ka Bradley reflects on two communal viewings of Manon – one on a big screen, one on a small screen.
21 August 2020
Reviews • Opera
Review: Opera Helps by Joshua Sofaer
By Rosemary Waugh
Friendly overtures: Rosemary Waugh writes on her confidence-boosting one-to-one therapy session from an opera singer.
18 August 2020
Reviews • Redux Reviews
Redux Review: Anatomy of a Suicide
By Hannah Greenstreet
Echoes through time: Hannah Greenstreet writes on her encounters with Alice Birch’s haunting exploration of intergenerational trauma.
11 August 2020
Reviews • Redux Reviews
Redux review: work.txt and work_from_home
By Alice Saville
Essential work: Alice Saville explores how Nathan Ellis’s interactive play works better from home.
29 July 2020
Reviews • Redux Reviews
Redux Review: Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring
By Ka Bradley
Dancing with death: Ka Bradley reckons with Pina Bausch’s mesmerising dance ritual, across multiple encounters
18 July 2020
Reviews • Redux Reviews
Redux review: Lungs at Old Vic
By Ava Wong Davies
Interlinked anxieties: Ava Wong Davies writes on Duncan Macmillan’s climate drama in its 2019 revival and its 2020 split screen livestream.
16 July 2020
Reviews • Reviews
Review: Remnants, by Soundworlds
By Natasha Tripney
No place to mourn: Natasha Tripney writes on an audio drama about the aftermath of the atrocities in Bosnia.
26 May 2020
Reviews • National
Review: The Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings show
By Natasha Tripney
A tragedy in two acts: Natasha Tripney assesses the theatrical merits of the government’s most recent instalments of live-streamed satire
21 May 2020
Reviews • National
Review: BE at Home
By Ben Kulvichit
Hope in the dark: Ben Kulvichit discovers underground caves, cardboard time capsules and durational circus feats at BE Festival’s online edition.
19 May 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Yard Online
17th May
By Hannah Greenstreet
Hope and healing: Hannah Greenstreet writes on the intimate, soothing and disconcerting interactive digital performances at The Yard’s one day festival.
14 May 2020
Reviews • Reviews
Review: The Department of Dreams
By Natasha Tripney
What dreams may come: Natasha Tripney discusses a US production of Jeton Neziraj’s dystopian story of sleep and the subconscious.
29 April 2020
Reviews • Imaginary Reviews
Imaginary Review: The Occupation Army of Cripples
By Amelia Cavallo
Amelia Cavallo completes Greyscale and Exeunt’s imaginary reviews series with “a glimpse of what crip utopia could look like”.
28 April 2020
Reviews • Imaginary Reviews
Imaginary Review: For the Love of it All
By Wambui Hardcastle
The series continues with Wambui Hardcastle’s spirit-lifting show about love, unfolding in Byker’s grass ampitheatre.
27 April 2020
Reviews • Imaginary Reviews
Imaginary Review: Try Again, Again
By Naomi Obeng
“A play about failing. Sign. Me. Up.” – Naomi Obeng imagines a tentative, hopeful performance in a brand new Loughborough venue.