Interview: Actor & writer Sam McArdle on The Manny and how it helped him bounce back into acting
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by Rev Stan
1w ago
Sam McArdle had given up acting and started writing a play for 'something to do'. He ended up performing that play, The Manny, at the King's Head Theatre last year and a successful run in Dublin followed. Ahead of The Manny's return to London at the Pleasance Theatre this week ..read more
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Review: For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy, Garrick Theatre - seamless theatre
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by Rev Stan
2w ago
For Black Boys... (ensemble). Photo: © Johan Persson For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy is a play of experiences told as a seamless stream of stories. But the play itself has its own story. This is the second West End run for Nouveau ..read more
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Review: Nachtland, Young Vic Theatre - provocation and problems
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by Rev Stan
2w ago
As the audience arrives at the Young Vic, four of the Nachtland cast are removing a vast array of household items from the stage. It's a process I find strangely fascinating: Is it random what they take, or carefully coordinated and the same every night, timed to perfection to coincide ..read more
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Review: 52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals, Soho Theatre - pink sequins and wipe-clean rubber flooring
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by Rev Stan
2w ago
52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals at the Soho Theatre sets out its stall as you walk into the theatre and are asked to spit in a cup. It's a request that certainly sets you thinking. Once inside, writer/performer Laurie Ward dances to a bouncy track in a pink sequined, halter-neck ..read more
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Interview: Robert Softley Gale of Birds of Paradise Theatre talks disabled representation and snobbishness about musicals
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by Rev Stan
3w ago
Robert Softley Gale, artistic director of Birds of Paradise Theatre Company Birds of Paradise, Scotland's pre-eminent disabled-led theatre company, is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a tour of its darkly comic play Don't Make Tea. Before the company hits the road later this month I spoke to artistic director Robert ..read more
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Review: A Family Business, Omnibus Theatre - smartly performed but connection issues
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by Rev Stan
1M ago
A Family Business by Chris Thorpe. Photography by Andreas J. Etter. A Family Business is based on conversations with academics, activists and diplomats, and is part interactive educational lecture on nuclear weapons and part drama about the campaign for nuclear disarmament. Writer and performer Chris Thorpe takes the part of ..read more
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Review: Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma in Macbeth, Dock X
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by Rev Stan
1M ago
Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma's Macbeth is being staged in an industrial warehouse in Canada Water, south east London, which means there is space around the auditorium to start setting the scene. As you step in from the dockside entrance, there are banners emblazoned with an 'M' and the sound ..read more
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Review: 10 Nights, Omnibus Theatre - well-paced, funny and warm
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by Rev Stan
1M ago
The 10 nights of the title of Shahid Iqbal Khan play refers to itikaf, spending the last 10 days of Ramadan at the Mosque. The idea is to cut yourself off from worldly affairs, focus on prayer and read the Quran. Yassar (Azan Ahmed) is always on TikTok, gets drunk ..read more
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Review: A Mirror, Trafalgar Theatre - truth and lies in theatre
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by Rev Stan
1M ago
Tanya Reynolds and Samuel Adewunmi in A Mirror at the Trafalgar Theatre - photo by Marc Brenner The wedding between Layla and Joel is back on, having found a new venue at the Trafalgar Theatre. Sam Holcroft's play A Mirror, which won rave reviews when it opened at the Almeida ..read more
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Review: Cockfosters, The Turbine Theatre - fun and peculiar
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by Rev Stan
2M ago
Cockfosters, The Turbine Theatre January 2024 Described as a surreal comedy, Cockfosters at The Turbine Theatre is set on the Piccadilly line and centres on a man and a woman who get on at Heathrow. Both are returning from trips abroad, and they strike up a conversation, which is surreal ..read more
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