Salomé. A nameless dancer, wife to Herod the Great, shunned as a symbol of female seduction, and defamed in literature as a vengeful harpy directly responsible for the death of John the Baptist. Director Yaël Farber seeks to reclaim the myth and rid it of misogyny in this new production of the classic myth. This new play reframes Salomé as a victim of patriarchal persecution … Continue reading Review: Salome by The National Theatre

be•wilder weren’t kidding when they said their company was all about international cultures and a myriad of backgrounds – their debut show Old Joe’s Fish and Chill features a multiracial cast with a multilingual script and characters with serious history. Set in a dystopian future where immigration has become heavily monitored and countries have been renamed to sound oddly similar to London postcodes, the titular Old Joe’s … Continue reading Review: Old Joe’s Fish and Chill by be•wilder

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