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Distance - Park Theatre
14 Sep
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: DISTANCE at the Park Theatre

Distance - Park Theatre Suicide is the biggest cause of death for men under 45 in the UK, and playwright Alex McSweeney shines a laser on this very real issue in DISTANCE.

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High Ridin'
14 Sep
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: HIGH RIDIN’ - at the King’s Head Theatre

High Ridin' High Ridin’ bills itself as an unlikely, heart-warming, gay, comedic, love story and for the most part it’s exactly that.

The neatly designed, dilapidated stage (by Fin Redshaw), is populated with three characters who are fractious yet gradually endear themselves both to each other and the audience.

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Love's Labour's Lost - Globe Theatre
06 Sep
Reviews
Isabella James

Review: LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST at The Globe Theatre

One of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies and least performed plays, Love’s Labour’s Lost is a play about contrasts; boys and girls, chastity and promiscuity, comedy and tragedy, the ‘owl and the cuckoo.’ Nick Bagnell directs this version of the 400-year-old play in The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at The Globe. As is tradition, the whole play is lit by candlelight which has cleverly been made into a feature of the plot and concept.

Love's Labour's Lost - Globe TheatreLove's Labour's Lost at The Globe Theatre - Photography by Marc Brenner

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Run It Back
06 Sep
Reviews
Monty Leigh

Review: RUN IT BACK at the Hackney Showrooms

Run It Back Talawa Theatre - the UK’s primary Black led touring theatre company - ’calls the ravers in’ with its latest performance Run it Back. It is introduced with an astounding spoken word piece by the formidable Jasmine L Jones - she speaks about her love of a woman called poetry as she intricately interweaves what we know to be classical poetry with hip hop classics spanning decades. The woman she loves cannot be defined by rules, she is everything from John Donne to Kurtis Blow.

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Alice Allemano
05 Sep
News
Phil Willmott

Preview: ABOUT LEO at Jermyn Street Theatre

Playwright Alice Allemano writes about the inspiration behind her new piece ABOUT LEO which runs at Jermyn Street Theatre from September 5 to 29.

Alice Allemano

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