LONDON – This February, The Upsetters are taking over the Bunker Theatre for one week to present a festival dedicated to celebrating artists of colour. This festival will mark the first ever Takeover Festival, an annual week-long touring festival which takes over a new theatre venue each year around the country with the aim of presenting new work by artists of colour while engaging with the next … Continue reading In London’s (Off) West End 2020: The Takeover Festival by The Upsetters and Bunker Theatre (Preview)

LONDON –  Featuring hundreds of shows spanning theatre, comedy, immersive experiences, cabaret and more, the annual VAULT Festival has returned for its eight edition, bigger and better than ever before. One of the wildest events in the London arts calendar, this year’s edition has grown from strength to strength each time, from a humble 12-day affair to what is now a whopping two month extravaganza … Continue reading London’s VAULT Festival 2020: An Interview with VAULT Festival Directors Mat Burtcher & Andy George

LONDON – Climate change is very real, but how do we continue to be ok in the face of impending doom? At the VAULT Festival 2020, Pigfoot presents How To Save A Rock, a multi award-winning climate-change musical comedy about how to still have hope, powered by a bicycle cycled live on stage. Directed by Bea Udale-Smith, and written by Alex Rugman and Conky Kampfner, … Continue reading London’s VAULT Festival 2020: How To Save A Rock by Pigfoot (Preview)

LONDON –  He’s dead, and it’s her job as an embalmer to prepare the body for his family’s final goodbye. She often imagines what each person’s life was like; today she doesn’t have to imagine. She knows him. When We Died is a striking new play about one woman’s choice to confront her trauma – faced with the body of the man who raped her, … Continue reading London’s VAULT Festival 2020: When We Died by Alexandra Donnachie (Preview)

LONDON – When a glamorous Hollywood starlet is stabbed on-set in a fatal mix-up of props, there’s only one man fit for the job of solving the crime: Stan Shakespeare. Award-winning company New Old Friends return once again with the latest installment of their ever-popular Crimes… series. Inspired by the classic English writing of Agatha Christie, Noël Coward and PG Wodehouse, the madcap comedy thrillers have … Continue reading Touring The UK 2020: Crimes, Camera, Action by New Old Friends (Preview)