Internationally-acclaimed immersive theatre company Punchdrunk is returning to London for the first time since 2014 with its largest live show to date, The Burnt City, staged in the company’s new home Woolwich Works from 22 March 2022 (the official opening is 21 April). Set across three Grade-II listed buildings, the show tells the story of Greek tragedy The Fall of Troy, transposed to a future parallel world (dates).
NEWS: AAA & Central offer life-changing Performance Making Diploma for Learning Disabled & Autistic Adults
Access All Areas (AAA) and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (Central) are once again offering life-changing opportunities for performers to join their award-winning Performance Making Diploma for Learning Disabled and Autistic Adults.
Decade Round-Up: The Plays
This isn’t a ‘best of’ list it’s my best-of list, these are the plays that shaped me this decade and will stay with me well into the next.
‘Startling piece of work’: SMALL WONDERS – Edinburgh ★★★★★
World renowned immersive theatre company Punchdrunk makes its first ever foray to Scotland with a comprehensively startling piece of work, Small Wonders, as part of the Edinburgh International Children’s Festival.
What were our Top 25 reviews & other blogs in October 2017?
What were the reviews and other blogs that got readers clicking most? Any surprises? Our Top 25 Mates Blogs from October 2017 are listed below with summaries and links to read more.
‘Drama at a totally different level’: Punchdrunk’s Kabeiroi ★★★★
Oblivious passers-by sometimes appeared odd and threatening, and I had the near-constant the feeling that we were being watched – which probably we were. At the same time, the hours walking round London following instructions meant sometimes it felt tedious, tiring and cold.
Ticket ballots take off: Are critics required anymore?
Why bother with the traditional press night if you’ve sold 80% plus of allocation? Critics are, over time, becoming less of a key marketing tool and I am strangely fine with it.
NEWS: Punchdrunk launches ticket ballot for new two-person, six-hour #Kabeiroi
Legendary theatre company Punchdrunk (The Drowned Man, Sleep No More, Masque of the Red Death) is to stage a brand new production inspired by the remaining fragments of Aeschylus’ lost play The Kabeiroi this autumn.
Review: Beggar’s Opera (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre)
Sometimes in London the venue affects your mood. Kicking your way through the rotting veg or chicken carcases of a street market towards a dingy hall in Hoxton or Kilburn demands a wellspring of optimism to meet the play with an open mind. Not so at Regent’s Park, whose well-established and well-run Open Air venture […]
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Review: Beggar’s Opera (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre)
Sometimes in London the venue affects your mood. Kicking your way through the rotting veg or chicken carcases of a street market towards a dingy hall in Hoxton or Kilburn demands a wellspring of optimism to meet the play with an open mind. Not so at Regent’s Park, whose well-established and well-run Open Air venture […]
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Review: Beggar’s Opera (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre)
Sometimes in London the venue affects your mood. Kicking your way through the rotting veg or chicken carcases of a street market towards a dingy hall in Hoxton or Kilburn demands a wellspring of optimism to meet the play with an open mind. Not so at Regent’s Park, whose well-established and well-run Open Air venture […]
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