Laura Turner’s The Buried Moon re-imagines The Tempest‘s Miranda and Caliban as two wayward British teenagers growing up in the Lincolnshire fens in the 2010s. Taking close inspiration from Shakespeare’s text, it’s a setting that works surprisingly well. Framing Miranda and Caliban’s history as a fundamentally tragic one and shedding light on what it potentially might have been, The Buried Moon manages to simultaneously demonize and sympathize with Caliban, while … Continue reading Review: The Buried Moon at the Rose Playhouse

Following the runaway success of the Tony Award winning Spring Awakening was never going to be an easy task, but that is the burden that Whisper House bears. Duncan Sheik’s next musical is considerably shorter and much more contained, with just a cast of six in its two act duration. Whisper House is a somewhat experimental musical. For one thing, its subject matter is a little unexpected – a … Continue reading Review: Whisper House at The Other Palace Theatre