Preview: Blue Elephant Theatre’s Winter Season 2019

LONDON – Blue Elephant Theatre is brewing up a storm for its winter season, with stories and shows at the intimate Camberwell venue grappling with big questions and themes, whether performed as intricate dance pieces, long runs or works-in-progress, and this season they touch on mental health, dystopian futures and love in all its forms. Hurricane Diaries 2nd – 19th October “I assume ya’ll are interested in history… … Continue reading Preview: Blue Elephant Theatre’s Winter Season 2019

Arts of the UK 2019: New Old Friends’ Swiss Family Robinson at The Core at Corby Cube (Preview)

LONDON –  Award-winning comedy theatre company New Old Friends brings a brand new adaptation of the classic children’s story, Swiss Family Robinson, to the stage for Christmas 2019. Directed by James Farrell, this high-octane production transports audiences to a remote desert island, where the shipwrecked family, dog included, must use ingenuity, inventiveness and intrigue to survive in their new environment and make friends with the creatures great … Continue reading Arts of the UK 2019: New Old Friends’ Swiss Family Robinson at The Core at Corby Cube (Preview)

Review: Urinetown by Pangdemonium

Piss-perfect performance to round off Pangdemonium’s 2019 season. If Les Miserables was the musical that brought the romance to revolution, then Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis’ Urinetown is almost certainly the one that takes the piss out of it. Wrapping up Pangdemonium’s 2019 season, Urinetown is the rare satirical musical that dares to poke fun at the musical genre and convention, yet, is in itself a more than competent production … Continue reading Review: Urinetown by Pangdemonium

In London’s (Off) West End 2019: i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) at The Bunker (Preview)

LONDON – After 22 years, pulled in different directions by two cultures and coming to terms with her mother’s abandonment, EJ prepares to meet the woman who left her and shaped who she is today. Joy struggles with the decision she made and readies herself to meet the daughter she abandoned. A poetic interlinking of monologues written by Ava Wong Davies, i will still be … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2019: i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) at The Bunker (Preview)

In London’s (Off) West End 2019: Hurricane Diaries by Amanda Vilanova & Oliver Hamilton (Preview)

“I assume ya’ll are interested in history… if not, I’ll try and give you as a brief history of Puerto Rico as I can muster….” LONDON –  Victoria is from Puerto Rico and has moved to London in pursuit of a better life. When the island is ravaged by Hurricane María, she looks back at what it is to be from a place forever changed by … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2019: Hurricane Diaries by Amanda Vilanova & Oliver Hamilton (Preview)

Preview: Dear Elena (青春禁忌游戏) by Nine Years Theatre

Nine Years Theatre returns this October for their third and final production of the year. Following the premiere of brand new play First Fleet in July, the company returns to their roots with Dear Elena, with artistic director Nelson Chia adapting a Russian play into Mandarin. Originally written by Russian playwright Lyudmila Razumovskaya, Dear Elena Sergeevna, the original play, was first staged at the beginning of … Continue reading Preview: Dear Elena (青春禁忌游戏) by Nine Years Theatre

In London’s (Off) West End 2019: Dutchman by Outer Gaea Company and Théâtre Libre (Preview)

LONDON –  Drawing tense parallels between Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movement, Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman asks how much change, if any, has occurred? Dutchman challenges the progress of racial equality in the last 50 years, revealing contemporary race relations. Following Lula, a white woman, and her partner Clay, a black man, Dutchman explores the intersectionality between race, class and gender. This explosive narrative … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2019: Dutchman by Outer Gaea Company and Théâtre Libre (Preview)

Preview: Pangdemonium!’s Ass-Kicking 2020 Season – The Son, The Glass Menagerie and The Full Monty

10 years ago, a humble theatre company was founded by actor Adrian Pang and his wife, director Tracie Pang, ditching their day jobs to follow their dreams. 10 years on, through perils, pitfalls and potholes, and plenty more successes, and Pangdemonium! has emerged as one of Singapore’s top and most popular theatre companies today, reliably delivering one quality production after another to sold-out audiences, and … Continue reading Preview: Pangdemonium!’s Ass-Kicking 2020 Season – The Son, The Glass Menagerie and The Full Monty

In London’s (Off) West End 2019: You Game by Murphy Ra (Preview)

LONDON –  Coming to London this November, an immensely successful screenwriter lures his wife’s lover to the house and convinces her to stage a robbery of her jewellery; setting off a chain of events that leaves the audience trying to decipher what is true, and what is fiction for the sake of the game. That’s the plot of You Game, a brand new adaptation of Anthony Shaffer’s … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2019: You Game by Murphy Ra (Preview)

Pangdemonium’s Urinetown: An Interview with the Cast and their Pee-rs

Urinetown may be a work of fiction, but with issues such as a “cross-border water crisis” and being set in “the most expensive city in the world”, it bears more than a pissing passing resemblance to a certain place far closer to home. As Pangdemonium gets ready to present this raucous, campy musical satire (which won Best Book and Best Original Score at the 2002 Tony … Continue reading Pangdemonium’s Urinetown: An Interview with the Cast and their Pee-rs