Timed to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week, the full-length premiere of Rachel Tookey’s award-winning new play Bromley Bedlam Bethlehem is now running at the Old Red Lion Theatre. I got to speak to Rachel and her producer-sister Hannah about how their own family inspired this story exploring how trauma and mental illness can be passed from one generation to the next.
New post-show Q&A: Join Terri for Bromley Bedlam Bethlehem at the Old Red Lion
As part of her ongoing post-show Q&A series, on Tuesday 7 May 2019, Mates co-founder Terri Paddock talks to writer Rachel Tookey and the company of Bromley Bedlam Bethlehem. Got any questions?
‘Made me think about what pets make of family dramas’: THE NOISES – Old Red Lion Theatre ★★★★
Written and directed by mother-daughter duo Jacqueline and Tamar Saphra, The Noises is an intimate tale that illustrates the Venn diagram of relationships involving the family dog.
‘Funny, touching, fearful’: THE NOISES – Old Red Lion Theatre ★★★★
The Noises is about a dog, played by Amy McCallister, whose physicality of performance is unwavering and really serves to underline the canine nature of the character she is playing. She embodies Luna as a textured, multi-faceted character (and dog), and it’s very impressive.
What were Emma Clarendon’s most popular posts in March?
Here are a few reads from Emma Clarendon’s Love London Love Culture that proved particularly popular in March.
‘Raw, insightful & brutally honest’: CIRCA – Old Red Lion Theatre ★★★
Raw, insightful and brutally honest, Tom Ratcliffe’s play Circa returns to London following its premiere at The Vaults Festival in 2016.
‘You can glimpse the seeds of a less ambitious but arguably better play’: CIRCA – Old Red Lion Theatre
Return of Tom Ratcliffe’s play Circa about gay life in today’s Britain: but it’s better at generalisation than at being specific.
Love London Love Culture’s Theatre Picks for March
Here is LLLC’s guide to some of the best theatre productions opening in the capital in March.
‘Presented with charm, creativity & gentle humour’: IN SEARCH OF APPLAUSE – Old Red Lion Theatre
Maroussia Vladi’s In Search of Applause is an intriguing one-woman show, a quiet and reflective piece about what drives us to make the decisions we do (or not), presented with charm, creativity and gentle humour.
‘An essential piece of theatre done stunningly well’: RATTLED – Old Red Lion Theatre ★★★★
Something that always impresses me is when a play manages to get the line between tragedy and comedy exactly right; Rattled is disturbing and gripping, but it’s also very, very funny.