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VAULT Festival 2017: Crocodiles and Chemsex (1/2/17)

The VAULT Festival continues with its second week, bringing us even more off kilter, fringe works. Today, we caught surreal family drama Crocodile where baby blues get more than a little out of hand, and Happy, a musical about chemsex, addiction and depression.   Crocodile by Joyous Gard In the grand literary tradition of bizarre transformations from the likes of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros to Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Joyous Gard carries on that … Continue reading VAULT Festival 2017: Crocodiles and Chemsex (1/2/17)

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Arts, London, Review, VAULT Festival 2017

VAULT Festival 2017: Crocodile by Joyous Gard (Preview)

Theatre company Joyous Gard is headed by the spectacular sibling duo of Joe and Beth Eyre. Crocodile will be their debut production, after already accumulating a slew of theatre credits in their career, and premieres this February at the VAULT Fringe Festival (London). Crocodile is a darkly surreal comedy about a couple that gives birth to a crocodile, but are nonetheless determined to bring up baby properly, and … Continue reading VAULT Festival 2017: Crocodile by Joyous Gard (Preview)

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Review: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat by Bill Kenwright (UK Tour)

Billed as a family friendly musical, you’d be surprised to know that it was none other than the great Andrew Lloyd Webber who penned the score, along with lyrics by longtime collaborator Tim Rice, who also wrote lyrics for musicals like The Lion King and Chess. As one of their earlier works, Joseph is nothing too complicated, more or less faithfully retelling the Biblical tale of Joseph and … Continue reading Review: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat by Bill Kenwright (UK Tour)

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Arts, Comedy, London, Review, Theatre, VAULT Festival 2017

VAULT Festival 2017: Notflix by Waiting For The Call

Coming in fresh from a sellout run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, musical improv team Waiting For The Call presents Notflix, a nightly performance where the team reimagines your favourite film as a completely original musical! Notflix starts off with picking a film at random, with choices drawn from a bucket of slips audience members filled out before the show. This was their second night performing at the … Continue reading VAULT Festival 2017: Notflix by Waiting For The Call

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Review: Promises Promises at Southwark Playhouse

Southwark Playhouse has yet to disappoint us with its keen curatorial sense for musicals, and producing the Tony Award nominated Promises Promises was certainly a good choice. Promises Promises is set in 60s New York, where ambitious, but overlooked employee Chuck Baxter is lucky enough to own a one room apart. This draws the attention of his higher ups, who routinely request to borrow his room to entertain … Continue reading Review: Promises Promises at Southwark Playhouse

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Review: Art at The Old Vic

Contemporary art, for the most part, is baffling. Whether it’s the abstract paintings of Rothko or Pollack, or the in your face attitude of Koons and Hirst, it’s easy to feel like there’s something missing in the era of modern art that the old masters possessed. The premise of Yasmina Reza’s Art starts with the purchase of one such painting, a seemingly blank, pure white canvas, with … Continue reading Review: Art at The Old Vic

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Review: Nice Fish at the Harold Pinter Theatre

Transferring to London from a sold-out season in New York, Nice Fish sets a high precedent for itself. Written by Academy Award winner and ex-artistic director of the Globe Mark Rylance alongside Minnesotan contemporary prose poet Louis Jenkins, Nice Fish is based off Rylance’s life growing up in the freezing American Midwest, and for the most part, features two friends out on an ice-fishing trip musing about … Continue reading Review: Nice Fish at the Harold Pinter Theatre

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Review: Dreamgirls at the Savoy Theatre

It’s honestly surprising how it’s taken this long to bring Dreamgirls to the West End (a whopping 35 years since its debut on Broadway), but when you have a show with such high production value, the wait was well worth it! Inspired by R&B groups such as The Supremes, Dreamgirls follows the rise of fictitious R&B girl group The Dreams as they grow up and find their way in … Continue reading Review: Dreamgirls at the Savoy Theatre

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Russian Film Week 2016

The inaugural Russian Film Week has landed in London! Featuring over 20 films across multiple cinemas, the Russian Film Week is aimed to showcase the very best of new Russian cinema, as well as shows about Russia. The festival will also feature masterclasses and workshops in film by various figures in Russia cinema, from directors to writers, as well as musical performances and exhibitions across … Continue reading Russian Film Week 2016

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Review: The Children by The Royal Court Theatre

Award winning playwright Lucy Kirkwood has never been afraid of touching on difficult topics in her work. This time around, the Royal Court Theatre presents her latest piece: The Children, an affecting play about aging, life and letting go. The Children is set in an isolated coastal English house, the sound of waves discernible from inside. The cottage is inhabited by an elderly couple, Hazel (Deborah … Continue reading Review: The Children by The Royal Court Theatre

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