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‘Enlightening & moving at the same time’: INVISIBLE MUSIC (Online review) ★★★★

In Musicals, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Debbie Gilpin26th July 2020Leave a Comment

Platform 4’s Invisible Music presents a beautiful and thought-provoking soundscape that is a wonderful manifestation of creativity in this period of isolation.

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‘Loud, fast, energetic & spirited journey’: POET IN DA CORNER – Royal Court Theatre & Touring ★★★★

In London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Olivia Mitchell9th February 2020Leave a Comment

The entire seventy minute show feels like a pan on the boil, continuously moving and flowing and engaging. Poet in da Corner is funny, truthful, inventive and really worth seeing.

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‘A powerful comment on the flimsy whims of political allegiance’: UBU!: A SINGALONG SATIRE – Touring

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly11th December 2019Leave a Comment

With the stalls audience standing and the performers clamouring through the crowd and onto the stage, Kneehigh’s staging of Ubu! evokes a gig, a party and a political rally all in one.

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Text of the Day: A History of Water in the Middle East

In Features, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Quotes by Aleks Sierz31st October 2019Leave a Comment

Random and topical thoughts and quotes gathered by My Theatre Mates contributor Aleks Sierz, first published on www.sierz.co.uk.

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‘The alternative was unbearable’: Mark Marczyk on revolution, Balaklava Blues and Counting Sheep

In Festivals, Inspiring people, International, Interviews, London theatre, Native, Sticky, Ticket recommendations by Featured Content22nd February 2019Leave a Comment

“Revolution is action. Revolution is choice.” Discover how Mark and Marichka Marczyk took that spirit of revolution, and all that comes with it, and channeled it into creating VAULT Festival hits Counting Sheep and Balaklava Blues.

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NEWS: Multimedia music experience Balaklava Blues plays alongside Counting Sheep at VAULT Festival

In Festivals, International, London theatre, Native, News, Press Releases, Sticky by Featured Content28th January 2019Leave a Comment

Balaklava Blues, a music and multimedia experience exploring post-traumatic stress and attempts to move forward, is playing alongside its immersive predecessor Counting Sheep at this year’s VAULT Festival. Both created by Mark and Marichka Marczyk, they run at Waterloo venue until 17 March 2019.

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THE LOST BOY PETER PAN – Pleasance Theatre

In Books, Children's theatre, Dance, London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly9th December 2017Leave a Comment

The Tradition versus Progress conflict sits along side the moral question of whether or not we should be perpetuating these attitudes in young children – who don’t know enough to see these problems – by continuing to tell these stories.

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‘Bold, genre-bending’: SNOW WHITE & ROSE RED – Battersea Arts Centre

In Children's theatre, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly5th December 2017Leave a Comment

Combining their woman-led, political ethos with the use of live music, RashDash reclaims femininity and appropriates the traditionally patriarchal adventure of fairytales in this spirited show for all ages.

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KLANGHAUS: 800 BREATHS – Southbank Centre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly7th July 2017Leave a Comment

A dozen or so of us were led to the roof of the Royal Festival Hall where we were told to expect: ‘A multi-sensory encounter of shifting sound, colour and light, which reinvents the gig-going experience as a site-responsive close-up standing performance.’ Whatever that is.

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SONGS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD – Battersea Arts Centre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly17th October 2016Leave a Comment

Jim Walters is the first person sent to colonise Mars. But when a global apocalypse occurs, trapping him in the Earth’s orbit and running out of oxygen, he and his guitar are left to broadcast music to the devastation below. Can anyone hear him? Are there any survivors? Will he ever know?

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KISSING THE SHOTGUN GOODNIGHT – Touring

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Touring by Laura Kressly11th October 2016Leave a Comment

Along with tickets, we are handed earplugs. Considering Christopher Brett Bailey’s first work This Is How We Die, I’m not surprised.

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