A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
Dance Base describes their one off line-ups as ‘The Fringe spirit distilled into 50 minutes’.
In the Autumn of 1853 the great Victorian critic John Ruskin delivered four lectures at the Philosophical Institution in Queen Street, Edinburgh.
Anna is missing, but why, and what happened in the day leading up to her disappearance? This non-linear play cuts back and forth from evening to daytime to unveil the truth behind …
Dining at Faulty Towers is a riotous and exuberant nostalgia trip.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
How can you prove your apologies come from the heart? Do we only express remorse because we crave forgiveness? Can we forget as easily as we can forgive? This short play, new writi…
A marathon is a metaphor for life in this interactive, multimedia promenade.
This is an action-packed offering that runs for an intense half an hour of desperation and claustrophobia.
Somebody’s Theatre from Sheffield offers us a piquant slice of life with this story of the tangled lives of four twenty somethings who share more than toothpaste - entirely set i…
This is a mixed bag of contemporary dance pieces from undergraduate JMUpstart Dance Company.
Country Air ‘A Contemporary Ghost Story’ is, to be frank, confusing and confused about what it is.
Rush Theatre presents Patrick Marber’s famous play, Closer, with clarity and sensitivity, but it sadly lacks in the palpable vigor of passion.
This is difficult to write.
Before watching this performance, I was eagerly expecting to be impressed by the promise of circus skills, puppetry, and a beloved writer.
B O X is an odd and offbeat comedy, and perhaps too self aware of that.
I’ve often wondered what was going on behind the life models eyes.
Welcome to Covent Garden Theatre, 1809, John Kemble, renowned actor and theatre manager is about to perform his celebrated Macbeth alongside his equally esteemed sister Sarah Siddo…
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…
A husband tells his wife tales to sooth her, calm her sorrows, reawaken for her the beauty of the world.
If you could tell Love what you honestly thought of it what would you say? In this fusion of poetic monologue, dance and sign language, Vintage Star Productions approaches love wit…
This dance-sketch show opens with a playful film, projected onto the large screen entirely covering the back wall of the space, featuring the cast as they hide behind pylons, trees…
Cloudia has been searching for Cloud Men all her life; on this journey she’ll finally find one on an expedition up Cloud Mountain but more importantly, she’ll learn a valuable …
Follow ‘Scrapologist’ Dr Patricia Baker as she probes, analyses and repairs a large Victorian scrapbook, identified as the property of the lonely clockmaker and seaweed collect…
When your hairs are standing on end only five minutes into a play - and the singers are just getting into their swing - you know in your gut that you’re in for something special…
This four-piece breakdancing crew is agile, energetic and hard-hitting.
It’s a kind of absurdist sketch show, perhaps.
Fruitful Ties performed by former Royal Ballet member, Mathew Hawkins and choreographer and teacher Steinvor Palsson, is strangely engrossing.
From the offices of The Janus Media Corporation at the Northern Stage, newly born political parties, us the audience, scamper off into the streets, armed with smart phones and a pl…