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Continue reading →: Waiting For Godard, The Cockpit – Short Play ReviewWhat’s the story? Two unnamed women have a short yet vast conversation in real-time, seemingly borrowing the initial conceit of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot, but through a contemporary lens with two Gen Z protagonists in modern London. Where the show diverts from its namesake is in both its brevity…
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Unfinished Business, Baron’s Court Theatre – Theatre Review
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Continue reading →: Unfinished Business, Baron’s Court Theatre – Theatre ReviewWhat’s the story? Drawing on artistic director Sarah Hyojin Kim’s experience at her grandmother’s deathbed, this devised piece follows four cousins on the anniversary of their mutual grandmother’s passing. Through traditional Korean rituals (chiefly Jesa, in which offerings of the deceased’s favourite foods are gathered before their portrait, and their…
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Continue reading →: “All my role models are on TV for the wrong reasons” – Can You Separate Art and Artist?Spoiler re: the titular question – if that artist is still alive and profiting from the art, it’s a no from me. In 2001 some real classics came into cinemas. Legally Blonde showed us all that being true to yourself never goes out of style, Pokémon 4ever taught kids that…
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Continue reading →: Curating, Old Red Lion Theatre – Theatre ReviewWhat’s the story? Freya wakes up on the floor of an unfamiliar office belonging to a friendly but strictly professional man, who won’t introduce himself beyond his being her Curator. She has a pounding headache, a gap in her memory since earlier that morning, and the growing dread that the…
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Continue reading →: Unbound: Alive in Concert – Cast Album PreviewAhead of the full release on Friday, October 31st, I’ve been given the opportunity to listen to a handful of the tracks from Matthew Harvey’s musical Unbound, recorded during its concert presentation at Hoxton Hall last year. Harvey is an accomplished actor himself, having performed in the likes of Violet…
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Continue reading →: Reboot Festival 5, Arches Lane Theatre – Mini-ReviewsWhat is the Reboot Festival? Soon finishing off its fifth year in London, Reboot is London’s biggest short play festival, this year taking places at the Arches Lane Theatre near Battersea Power Station. Put together by Kibo Productions, each of the festival’s three weeks featured a selection of six short…
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Rachel Zegler Live at The London Palladium – Concert Review
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Continue reading →: Rachel Zegler Live at The London Palladium – Concert ReviewAfter 12 weeks of high flying adoration leading Jamie Lloyd’s Evita revival, Rachel Zegler brought her time in London to a close with a one-night-only return to The London Palladium on Sunday, October 5th. Thanks to the sheer number of tickets purchased in such a minute amount of time, a…
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Continue reading →: Writing Prompt – “Write about a hero who transitions into a villain”In the hope of flexing my fiction-writing muscles again, I’ve been looking through my old writing from online prompts. This one was a bit of fun with the concept of a “Mary Sue” – that totally perfect heroine who can seemingly do whatever the plot requires, whether or not these…
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Continue reading →: The Producers, Garrick Theatre – Theatre ReviewWhat’s the story? Sleazy has-been producer Max Bialystock and anxiety-riddled accountant Leo Bloom stumble onto a seemingly genius loophole – the backers of a Broadway flop don’t expect to make any money back, so if someone raised more than they needed and a show closed opening night, they’d stand to…
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Continue reading →: Am I Losing My Mind or Just My Figure? Etcetera Theatre, Camden – Theatre ReviewWhat’s the story? An illustrator making ends (just about) meet as a bike courier, Fin’s list of mistakes and misadventures looks likely to never end. Then a fateful revelation in the work toilets forces the twenty-something Fin to confront the idea of life as she’s known it being over, as…
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