The Panoptic

April 13, 2020

Watching and waiting: Milan from my window

I don’t want to describe my experience from the point of view of things you see on the news.

April 1, 2020April 1, 2020

Quarantunes to groove (alone) to

Feeling the lockdown blues? Here are five albums to add to your quarantine playlist now, and in a few days.

September 26, 2019September 26, 2019

London Fashion Week – Women’s Collections SS20

The Panoptic is back at fashion week this Spring Summer 20’ season reviewing the latest trends in textile technologies – highlighting several designers pushing the boundaries of sustainable and ethical fashion with the ‘Positive Fashion’ exhibition taking over showrooms. Ethical fashion is always at the heart of today’s debate and the industry is addressing this…

July 15, 2019July 15, 2019

Review: Peter Gynt (National Theatre)

David Hare’s adaptation is good, but James McArdle is better in the National’s gripping new production of Ibsen’s meandering epic, Peter Gynt.

June 5, 2019June 5, 2019

Review: Does My Bomb Look Big In This? (Soho Theatre)

Nyla Levy’s new drama of teenage radicalisation tells a beautiful, well-crafted, and humanising story. I really hope the audience took it to heart.

April 30, 2019April 30, 2019

Review: Metamorphosis (Tristan Bates)

As the audience shuffle in to Metamorphosis at the Tristan Bates Theatre, extracting themselves from coats and squeezing into seats, they are also aware of another, rather more choreographed, movement taking place. To the low thump of base, confined to the corner of the stage, an ensemble repeat the same sharp movements, trance-like. Collide Theatre’s…

April 18, 2019April 18, 2019

The Panoptic

Watching and waiting: Milan from my window

Quarantunes to groove (alone) to

Going beyond the “Januhairy” movement: Wave your arms in the air, if you’ve got underarm hair!

Watching and waiting: Milan from my window

Quarantunes to groove (alone) to

London Fashion Week – Women’s Collections SS20

Review: Peter Gynt (National Theatre)

Review: Does My Bomb Look Big In This? (Soho Theatre)

Review: Metamorphosis (Tristan Bates)

Review: Three Sisters (Almeida)

Review: Pah-La (Royal Court)

Review: Shipwreck (Almeida)

Review: Pinter 7 (Harold Pinter Theatre)