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‘Heart-breaking, wonderfully crafted piece’: LÒNG MẸ – Vault Festival

In Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly5th March 2020Leave a Comment

As a child of an immigrant mother, the double-bill is Lòng Mẹ like a beloved jumper that’s scratchy but warm, you embrace the small pains because the comfort and love is so much stronger.

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‘Particularly fiendish’: JEKYLL & HYDE – Vault Festival

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly22nd February 2020Leave a Comment

This is certainly something different to the majority of the festival’s shows: rather than a traditional show, it is a scavenger hunt/immersive promenade show, put on by established company Fire Hazard Games.

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‘An exceptional piece of new writing’: PUSH – Vault Festival

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly2nd February 2020Leave a Comment

Push is a one-woman show centred on one woman’s story, and its sense of universality will be welcome to those who experience the pressure to have, or not have, children.

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‘Slick, smart & penetrating’: VOiD – Vault Festival

In Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly1st February 2020Leave a Comment

If a piercing performance of the mind is something you are after, you will not be disappointed with VOiD at the Vault Festival, London.

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‘An impressive range of issues delivered beautifully by the cast’: BODY TALK – Vault Festival

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly31st January 2020Leave a Comment

Full Disclosure has created an ensemble piece in Body Talk that weaves the characters’ lives together with the sensitivity and playfulness that these subjects require.

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‘Educates & enlightens audiences’: 10 – Vault Festival

In Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly15th March 2019Leave a Comment

In 10, playwright Lizzie Milton wants to redress the balance. The potted stories of 10 women who have been largely forgotten in the passage of time unfold in choral celebration, serving to both educate and enlighten audiences.

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‘The spirit of political activism is well-captured’: BALAKLAVA BLUES – Vault Festival

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly4th March 2019Leave a Comment

Mark and Marichka Marczyk’s band Lemon Bucket Orkestra shares songs from their newest album in the short, intimately staged gig Balaklava Blues at the Vault Festival.

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‘A gripping piece’: TRYST – Vault Festival

In Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly16th February 2019Leave a Comment

Thanks to three great performances and a taut script, Tryst is a gripping piece. The three characters are well-rounded and convincing, and as lies unravel and confessions are made it is difficult to know who to side with.

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‘It’s impossible to look away’: DRENCHED – Vault Festival

In Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly8th February 2019Leave a Comment

Parody is too broad a stroke to apply to Drenched at the Vault Festival. There is something more intelligent and altogether weird and wonderful at work here.

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‘Intelligent & terrifying theatre at its best’: SÉANCE – Vault Festival

In Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly27th January 2019Leave a Comment

Séance is one of two productions that Darkfield has brought to the VAULT Festival this year, and this sensory explosion is not one for the faint-hearted.

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‘Gross, funny & interactive’: TRAINSPOTTING LIVE – The Vaults

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly31st March 2018Leave a Comment

Beginning with a rave and barrelling through to the last blackout, Trainspotting Live is an important contribution to theatre’s ecology and balls-out fights with its reputation for being stuffy and inaccessible.

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‘A bit rocky in places’: LOCK & KEY – Vault Festival ★★

In Festivals, London theatre, Musicals, Opinion, Reviews by Laura Kressly22nd March 2018Leave a Comment

Although it is a bit rocky in places, there is an interesting twist at the end of Lock and Key that makes it easier to digest.

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‘A solid little play with some big ideas’: DIRTY LITTLE MACHINE – Vault Festival

In Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly21st March 2018Leave a Comment

Dirty Little Machine is this close to smashing through theatrical boundaries, what with its dalliances into non-linear storytelling, but it could certainly go further.

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‘Potential to be be a fantastic piece of theatre’: BIG BAD – Vault Festival

In Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly19th March 2018Leave a Comment

Big Bad is a polished, complete play with a confrontational viscerality necessary in the world today. With greater emotional range applied to the performance, this would be a really fantastic piece of theatre.

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‘Beautifully surreal & dark take on the ridiculousness that is advertising culture’: ALL BOXED UP – Vault Festival

In Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly18th March 2018Leave a Comment

Boxed Up is a beautifully surreal and dark take on the ridiculousness that is advertising culture, deftly delivered. If you’re after something off-beat and tongue-in-cheek, you’d be hard-pressed to find something smarter.

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‘Rich combination of musical styles’: LADYLIKE – Vault Festival

In Dance, Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly18th March 2018Leave a Comment

Brazilian choreographer and performer Ella Mesma uses a wide range of dance styles, such as rumba, rock and South American ritual dances in Ladylike.

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‘Delicate performances’: BOOTS – Vault Festival

In Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly14th March 2018Leave a Comment

There are really moving moments and confessions in Boots, especially relevant in a time like ours, where more and more people are speaking up about sexual abuse.

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‘A wonderful adventure that’s executed with clarity and precision’: A HUNDRED WORDS FOR SNOW – Vault Festival

In Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly12th March 2018Leave a Comment

Equally endearing and moving with light touches of comedy, Tatty Hennessy’s A Hundred Words For Snow coming-of-age monologue is well-crafted, staged simply and performed with an easy vulnerability.

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‘Strangely beautiful’: FOREIGN BODY – Vault Festival

In Dance, Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly12th March 2018Leave a Comment

Foreign Body is a brave and abstract way of presenting a horrific act that leaves the stories wide open to the audience’s individual interpretation without coming across as preachy.

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‘Delivers a solid & profoundly uncomfortable punch’: FOLLOW SUIT – Vault Festival

In Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly11th March 2018Leave a Comment

Follow Suit is a slick, dark comedy of the absurd which satirises the dry routine and empty pointlessness of office life. The four main cast members barely utter a word from start to finish, but every movement is clean, clear and vital to the narrative.

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