By Nicola Wright Monday, October 8 2018, 11:44
Based on historical fact and set in London in 1869 Joy Wilkinson's THE SWEET SCIENCE OF BRUISING is a play about the struggles and constraints of being a woman in Victorian England, and how the four protagonists find freedom in the underground world of female boxing.
Fiona Skinner in "The Sweet Science of Bruising"
By Alex Benjamin Monday, October 8 2018, 11:01
American writer Matthew Lopez’ enormous play has already written itself into theatrical canon since a widely beloved premiere at the Young Vic, so a move to the West End was a natural fit. A two-part play coming in at nearly 7 hours, The Inheritance reworks E. M. Forster’s Howards End into a vast story of gay men’s love in contemporary New York.
By Phil Willmott Monday, October 8 2018, 09:35
I'm sad to report that FOXFINDER, the eerie new play that showed such promise on its fringe premiere, just didn’t attract enough good reviews to attract an audience in the West End despite a star cast. It’ll be closing at the Ambassador’s Theatre on 20th October.
By Tim Winter Monday, October 8 2018, 09:26
Before Charles Dickens embarked on his glorious career as a novelist, he wrote a number of short pieces for various newspapers, magazines and journals under the pseudonym of "Boz". Finally collected together just before 'The Pickwick Papers' saw the light of day, Dickens called them 'Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People', mostly the Life and People of London.
By Isabella James Monday, October 8 2018, 09:13
Polka Theatre has joined forces with Tara Arts to retell some traditional Indian folk tales in a vibrant, warm performance for under 7s. The three stories are interwoven with the tale of three orphans; Jasmine (Medhavi Patel), Mahendra (Raj Swamy) and Jayaben (Rose-Marie Christian) who are joined as family by their adopted father.
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