[Preview] VAULT Festival 2017: Previews 15-19 Feb (Part 2)

Here’s part 2 of our picks of the week for the 4th exciting week of the biggest arts festival in London! This time around, we have unusual burlesque, naughty puppets and an immersive, electronic experience. House of Burlesque 2.0 by The ProducersUK and Tempest Rose for House of Burlesque One of the hottest burlesque acts comes to town this week for a night of the … Continue reading [Preview] VAULT Festival 2017: Previews 15-19 Feb (Part 2)

[Preview] VAULT Festival 2017: Previews 15-19 Feb (Part 1)

Week 4 of the VAULT Festival begins in earnest as we present our picks of the week, with musical space odysseys, deaths on the beach, and party girls gone wild with humour: Summer Nights In Space by Henry Carpenter Creators of the critically acclaimed rock musical The Quentin Dentin Show are back with an all new sci-fi musical with all the best tropes and elements you’ve come … Continue reading [Preview] VAULT Festival 2017: Previews 15-19 Feb (Part 1)

[Review] VAULT Festival 2017: Inner City Pressures and Talking Balloons (11/2/17)

Wrapping up our coverage of the VAULT Festival this week we have reviews of Save + Quit by Hairpin Productions Save + Quit deals with cities and the lives that inhabit them. Specifically, London and Dublin. Written by Sophia Leuner and directed by Billie De Buitlearneur, Save + Quit is a phenomenal exercise in stripped down theatre, consisting of two sets of two intersecting monologues, with just … Continue reading [Review] VAULT Festival 2017: Inner City Pressures and Talking Balloons (11/2/17)

[Review] VAULT Festival 2017: Wretches, Bees and Cursed Dummies (10/2/17)

We’re off to a late start this week, but here’s the first half of our reviews at the VAULT Festival this week! WRETCH by Interval Productions There’s a lot of debate on the state of homelessness and how to get people out of it, but few plays actually touch on what happens after. Rebecca Walker’s new play does just that, and boy does it go … Continue reading [Review] VAULT Festival 2017: Wretches, Bees and Cursed Dummies (10/2/17)

[Preview] VAULT Festival 2017: Previews 8-12 Feb (Part 2)

Following Part 1, here’s Part 2 of our selections for the VAULT Festival this week, with two plays about life in the city, and a play about a girl learning to cope with grief with the help of a special friend: Save + Quit by Sophia Leuner Coming in from a successful Edinburgh Fringe run and being bestowed the honour of being chosen as the … Continue reading [Preview] VAULT Festival 2017: Previews 8-12 Feb (Part 2)

[Preview] VAULT Festival 2017: Previews 8-12 Feb (Part 1)

Week 3 of the massive VAULT Festival comes with more theatre, more quirks and more fringe shows. Check out Part 1 of our selections for this week below! WRETCH by Interval Productions As we’ve seen in Happy, literally anything and everything has the potential to become a musical, including this one act play about life after homelessness. Multi-award nominated Interval Productions proudly presents writer Rebecca Walker’s … Continue reading [Preview] VAULT Festival 2017: Previews 8-12 Feb (Part 1)

[Review] VAULT Festival 2017: Haunted Houses and Fun Funerals (3 & 4/2/17)

We Are Brontë by Publick Transport It’s hard to pin down what exactly We Are Brontë is. Very loosely based off of the Brontë family’s life and times, Publick Transport utilises physical theatre and clever use of props to interpret the Gothic lifestyle, to hilarious results. If you’ve ever read a novel by one of the Brontës, or know anything about Gothic horror tropes, We Are Brontë will almost … Continue reading [Review] VAULT Festival 2017: Haunted Houses and Fun Funerals (3 & 4/2/17)

[Review] VAULT Festival 2017: One Man Shows About Love and Other Diseases (2/2/17)

Tonight at the VAULT Festival, we caught two one man shows: James Rowland’s romcom turned life lesson A Hundred Different Words For Love and Kane Power’s musical exploration of his mother’s bipolar disorder. Unlike many one man shows though, both manage to avoid veering into self-indulgence and created some shows that left serious food for thought. A Hundred Different Words For Love by James Rowland … Continue reading [Review] VAULT Festival 2017: One Man Shows About Love and Other Diseases (2/2/17)

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)

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)