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‘Warmly assured, instantly engaging & softly inspiring’: HEADS OR TAILS – Living Record Festival (Online review)

In London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks SierzLeave a Comment

Yesterday I watched Skye Hallam’s excellent one-woman show, Heads or Tails, one of the headline acts at the new Living Record Festival. It’s a gently confessional monologue about the afterlife spoken by 25-year-old Steph, who has – as they say – been “taken too soon”.

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Best of the Blogs: From Brexit via Plenty to A Midsummer Night’s Dream

In Features, London theatre, Native, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Sticky by Lisa Martland

Amidst editor Lisa Martland’s seven Top Picks from the last week of theatre are Libby Purves’ description of her blissful time at Nicholas Hytner’s immersive production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridge Theatre and Aleks Sierz’s thoughts on the Kiln Theatre’s new opening, Samuel Adamson’s take on A Doll’s House in Wife.

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Terri trips: The Flies at the Bunker & Brexit at the King’s Head Theatre

In Features, London theatre, Native, Opinion, Photos, Plays, Reviews, Video by Terri PaddockLeave a Comment

Two of the Featured Show campaigns I’ve been working on recently have been two plays tapping into the political unrest of our times: the return of Tom Salinsky and Robert Khan’s Brexit comedy to the King’s Head Theatre and the Exchange Theatre’s tenth-anniversary revival of Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic The Flies.