In our second round-up, a meditation on grieving, a factually-driven examination of the refugee crisis and a tale of loneliness in the social media age.
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As London’s VAULT Festival enters 2017, Ana Malinovic samples some of what’s on offer.
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Though it may be difficult to take in or understand, it’s like nothing you’ve seen before.
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In the second of our VAULT Festival round-ups, Ana Malinovic sees an Austrian mind-reader and a searing monologue on US racial politics.
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The character of Marie in Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck is traditionally dismissed as either a harlot or an irrevelance. Cassiah Joski-Jethi’s play seeks to reclaim her.
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Penny Woolcock’s imaginatively executed work holds a mirror up to our society – and is driven by a burning urge to give a voice to the dispossessed.
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Three short Samuel Beckett plays are currently being performed at the Old Red Lion Theatre. They seem incredibly disparate – but, in fact, argues Ana Malinovic, they all share a ...
Since Punchdrunk debuted their iconic Sleep No More in 2003, the immersive hotel experience has become a subgenre of its own. Ana Malinovic looks at the latest example by emerging ...
Showman, the tour de force by gentleman juggler Mat Ricardo, reinvents an overlooked art, says Ana Malinovic.
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Forget Me Not, an immersive show at Etcetera Theatre, imagines a dystopian world in which all art and creativity is banned. Ana Malinovic is impressed…
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“Are there any paranoids in the theatre tonight?” asked Roger Waters in his spectacular revival of Pink Floyd’s dystopian classic The Wall at Wembley Stadium. Whether it’s excessive surveillance, institutional ...
In the past year Simon Stephens has gone from raw, controversial doyen of new writing theatres to a darling of the West End. Ana Malinovic saw a production of his ...
And the Mountains Echoed is a worthy and emotional successor from the author of A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner whilst managing to be even more emotionally heart-wrenching.
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As part of The National Theatre’s ongoing Platform season of talks and events, I recently attended a fascinating talk from Neil MacGregor about his latest book Shakespeare’s Restless World. MacGregor’s ...
The Lion and Unicorn theatre is an intimate setting for the domestic turmoil of Othello; a small stage situated above a pub. Upon entering the space of this theatre, you ...
Halbwelt Kultur, which just completed its first run at New Wimbledon Studio as parts of the Fresh Ideas programme, hones in on an intensely tumultuous period of history: that of ...
How different, if at all, is the art of songwriting compared to that of crafting poetry? I would be inclined to argue that the answer is in the question: poetry ...
One of the unique and perhaps fundamental elements to the drama in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a clear sense of the passage of time. The impact this has on the play’s ...
