Posts Tagged ‘Freddie Machin’
From the Ground Up, Shoreditch Town Hall, review: 'a lo-fi game show experience'
The show, devised by the Almeida young company, saw audiences peppered with provocative yes-or-no questions
Read MoreGetting stuffed – self-storage lock-up stages play about belongings
Handle with Care follows Zoe on a 30-year journey, viewed through the prism of her personal effects
Read MoreHandle with Care – self-storage lock-up stages play about belongings
Promenade production follows Zoe on a 30-year journey, viewed through the prism of her personal effects
Read MoreAfter Independence: staging the politics of Zimbabwe
The complex power dynamics of Zimbabwe post-independence is the subject of a new play at the Arcola
Read MoreCrossing the divide – Spitalfields to see crowdfunded adaptation of Malorie Blackman classic
An extraordinary tale of social exclusion, terrorism and oppression, Noughts and Crosses has now been adapted for the stage. Its director Cheryl Walker talks about black representation and why her performers are “not just actors”
Read MoreThe Sissy’s Progress at Toynbee Studios: drama tackles prejudice head on
Performer Nando Messias returned to the site where he was attacked 10 years previously with a defiant new show about the experience
Read MoreFamily connection to Mayflower pilgrims inspires play
Don’t Waste Your Bullets on the Dead by Stoke Newington-based writer Freddie Machin premieres this month at Vault Festival
Read MoreMy Beautiful Black Dog – review: finding humour in depression
Hackney Showroom was wowed this week by the charismatic Brigitte Aphrodite for a short run of her Edinburgh-feted musical play about depression
Read MoreOctagon – stage review: poetry that 'shivers your timbers…and sizzles your spine'
Poetry hotshots spit out their rhymes in a battle for poetry supremacy in Octagon at the Arcola
Read MoreRadical play Brenda reflects on nature of being human
Brenda, which kicks off the Yard’s autumn season, is an experimental play that questions the very nature of selfhood
Read MoreBakkhai – stage review: Greek tragedy's modern makeover
Ben Whishaw impresses as a Greek god in Anne Carson’s slick adaptation of The Bacchae by Euripides
Read MoreCrossing Jerusalem: stage review – 'We’re all the same stinking family!'
Julia Pascal’s play focuses on two families living in Jerusalem during the Second Intifada
Read MoreCrossing Jerusalem – a conflict of interest
Playwright Julia Pascal hid her Jewish identity and ventured into the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem to find out what life is really like there
Read MorePlaywright questions her Jewish roots in This Is Not The End
With three generations of women centre stage, Rose Lewenstein’s new play examines the nebulous concept of ‘home’
Read MoreCrouch, Touch, Pause, Engage – stage review: between a ruck and a hard place
A gay rugby player and attempted suicide victim face strong opponents in Robin Soans’ Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage
Read MoreWhy life as an outsider isn't what it seems
Author claims East London is the outsider capital of London in book on non-conformism The Outside Edge
Read MoreWhy life as an outsider isn’t what it seems
Author claims East London is the outsider capital of London in book on non-conformism The Outside Edge
Read MoreRugby drama tells the story of a pioneer for sexual equality
Gareth Thomas’s battle for acceptance after coming out is the subject of Crouch, Touch, Pause, Engage, opening next week at the Arcola
Read MoreHannah Moss: silent play is 'my way of saying goodbye’ after Dad's death
The death of her father and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five inspired Hannah Moss’s acclaimed play So it Goes
Read MoreAntigone – stage review: new script makes for slanging mismatch
Roy Williams’ adaptation of Antigone at Stratford East places the play in a gangland setting
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