Wild eyes, grasping hands, looks of abject fear – they’re all there in the production images for Trial of Love , the new supernatural comedy currently running at the Bread & Roses Theatre. Take a look, if you dare, then book your tickets!
WATCH: Meet the cast of dark comic horror Trial of Love
Finding humour in darkness and exploring the meeting of Eastern and Western influences – watch the young cast of HiddenViewz new production Trial of Love discussing the new play. Time to get booking!
NEWS: HiddenViewz bring supernatural tale Trial of Love to the Bread & Roses Theatre
Otherworldly entities interfere with the life of a successful Chinese businessman in Trial of Love, the new production from company HiddenViewz, which comes to the Bread & Roses Theatre next week. Book your tickets now!
Best of the Blogs: All My Sons, Rosmersholm, Man Of La Mancha, This Is My Family & more
As part of a new series, our editor Lisa Martland picks out seven of her Top Picks from the last week of theatre (29 April-6 May 2019), ranging from Johnny Fox’s nostalgic return to see All My Sons and Maryam Philpott’s thoughts on the much-anticipated Rosmersholm starring Tom Burke and Hayley Atwell.
‘Powerfully uncomfortable play’: STARVED – Bread & Roses Theatre ★★★★
Starved is yet another good example of the great work being performed within pub theatres at the present time.
‘Pacey & engaging’: A MODEST LITTLE MAN – Bread & Roses Theatre ★★★★
A Modest Little Man is a pacey and engaging one-act play. The characters are – for the most part – well fleshed out and well realised.
‘Not afraid to ask difficult questions’: FRANKENSTEIN – Touring ★★★★
As much a tribute to Mary Shelley’s classic novel as a way of scrutinising its themes from a 21st-century perspective, SISATA Theatre’s Frankenstein straddles the past and the future.
‘Right balance between black humour & allowing the characters to breathe’: THE BUZZ, Bread & Roses Theatre ★★★★★
What begins as a satire-cum-family drama in The Buzz veers into Death and the Maiden territory with the past being brought into account.
‘Endearing performance’: LITTLE DID I KNOW – Bread & Roses Theatre ★★★★
From one perspective, the path that Aanesah endures in Little Did I Know can be seen to be a microcosm of women over thousands of years, always hoping for a better tomorrow, but enduring hardships of one form or other.
HOW TO SURVIVE A SWARM OF BEES – Bread & Roses Theatre
The heaps of white pillows that cover most of the stage make How To Survive a Swarm of Bees look like a slumber party or a kids’ fort, something with a lot of fun and giggles. But Anna Crace’s short play is far from the happy cuddliness implied by the set.