Belarus Free Theatre are one of the few companies who really can call themselves revolutionary. Their show Minsk 2011 is a love letter to a city that hasn't lost its heart but has for so long hidden it.
Ambition religion and politics collide in the story of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams who both have their eye on an Olympic medal. But Eric, a devout Christians runs for God everyday but Sunday while...
A delightful mask show from Vamos Theatre after their excellent performance of Nursing Lives. Much Wenlock is a little Shropshire town that hosts its own Olympic games that sees the butcher practice his...
Stephen Unwin directed this Manfred Karge play in 1988 and this Spring he returns to the text at Arcola Theatre.
This story about a group of unemployed friends who spend their time enthusiastica...
So far the only casting announced for Brimstone and Treacle is Rupert Friend who'll play the good looking psychopath that weedles his way into the lives of Tom, Amy and Patricia Bates. Tom and Amy have...
And you thought your colleagues were a pain in the arse. Sam Hirst is a Lib Dem struggling with an over-bearing Tory Home Secretary as a boss in this satire on the unity of the Coalition.
The Love Bites Plays, a collection of short pieces from emerging artists, returns to Southwark Playhouse with work from Ziella Bryars, Daniel Frankenburg, Craig Donaghy, and Bea Appleby in this showcase...
Performed at a wake at the Hanbury Arms, Bits of Obits is eleven new pieces of theatre inspired by bits of obituaries, performed over four nights in a creepy and probably hilarious setting. The nights...
A pompous and hilarious double date takes shape as two ambitious men and attempt to find themselves some lady friends under the watchful, mischievous eye of their cocksure Maître d'.
Can Themba's story of a husband's revenge on his cheating wife has been turned into a musical play by Peter Brook and Marie-Helene Estienne. When a young South African worker finds his wife in bed with...
“Hope is the enemy of
reason” says a Nazi to a Jew in Michael Ashton's The Beekeeper.
It's a line which, for me, sets the focus of the story and so clever
are Ashton's metapho...
The Duchess finds herself widowed and tied to her two brutish brothers who refuse to let her remarry so they can keep a hold on her inheritance. The discovery of her relationship with Antonio, her steward...
Lisa D'Amour's play about two American couples transfers from The States to National Theatre this May. She pairs straight-laced, middle-class Ben and Mary with their recovering junkie neighbours Sharon...
An exhibition of enigmatic photographic works by Edgar Martins this summer. After debuting earlier this year at one of London's most brilliant gallery/restaurant spaces - the wonderful Wapping Proj...
Nominated for the Edinburgh 'Best Newcomer' award last year, Boy With Tape on His Face is a truly innovative, brilliant comedy act, one you rarely get to see on the comedy circuit these days. A combination...
Glammed up, old school vaudeville circus comes to town with magicians and musicians in tow. The show includes Circa, La Clique and Acrobat and Circus Oz who put on one hell of a spectacle. Seriously fun...