I really want to enjoy The End. Colab have produced some of the most fun site-specific events in London, over the many years these stalwarts of the genre have been operating. They’ve managed to deliver a rolling series of productions, all of which have been toward the more hands-on, participatory end of immersive experiences, in…
Sophie is 29 and she’s going to celebrate in style – she just doesn’t know it yet! Sophie’s surprise 29th lands in London, at Underbelly’s new permanent venue, Underbelly Boulevard, after a well-received run on the Edinburgh fringe. The cast have certainly found their feet – or rather, launched themselves off them: this is a…
The West End in London is what Americans would call ‘downtown’. Whether organically or by deliberate marketing effort another, better name has arisen for the area around Shaftesbury Avenue: Theatreland. There’s such a concentration of theatres in this small area that in normal times you can take your pick from big-name musicals, serious dramas, or…
There’s a moment when you know, isn’t there? That, however inconvenient, you’ve fallen in love. I think I feel a bit this way about Steven Kunis’ production of Afterglow. When Josh and Alex invite Darius into their bed, they think they’re just having a bit of fun. Fun for the theatregoer, too, as the three…
“Dreams aren’t weightless things, they have a mass,” Charles L Fairbanks Junior tells us, as he fantasises about becoming an astronaut despite growing up in Nowheresville. First performed in 2006, Al Smith’s Radio uses the moon landing as its centre of gravity, but it isn’t just the fiftieth anniversary of this triumph of American engineering…