Legendary performance artist Bryony Kimmings returns with a brave and exhilerating solo show examining her recovery from postnatal breakdown.
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How To Cope With Embarrassment review
How To Cope With Embarrassment offers us a delicious platter of first-class cringe. The show poignantly opens with the classic statement from 2007’s Miss South Carolina when asked why she thinks a fifth of Americans cannot locate their country on a map, to which she responded: “I personally believe that U.S. Americans […] uhmmm, some people…
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“Time’s Up”
For the London edition of the worldwide Time’s Up rally, protestors showed their commitment to the fight for equality and declared “Time’s Up” on sexual harassment.
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Top Ten Reviews of 2017
We bring you our most read reviews of 2017, with links to the full articles to peruse at your pleasure!
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A Machine They’re Secretly Building
“To keep you safe” becomes a haunting mantra over the course of A Machine They’re Secretly Building – and with good cause.
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Scorch
‘Gender fraud’ has become a buzzword amongst UK tabloids in recent years. A high-profile example is Kyran Lee: a transgender man convincted in 2014 of one count of sexual assault by penetration on the basis of “gender fraud”. Scorch, by Prime Cut Productions, follows a story in a similar vein.
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The Vagina Dialogues
It is difficult to think of the new play The Vagina Dialogues without associating it with Eve Ensler’s famous The Vagina Monologues in 1996. But that is not to say that this production piggybacks off Eve Ensler – instead, it gives us a well-needed update on feminist dialogue.
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Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Medicine
We all know and love Roald Dahl. If you’ve read George’s Marvellous Medicine, or any of his books for that matter, you’ll know that Dahl wrote from his own experiences. In fact, he created some marvellous medicine of his own.
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Education, Education, Education
It’s May 1997. Tony Blair has won the general election and Katrina and the Waves have won Eurovision. We become witness to a typical day at Wordsworth Comprehensive. Things are about to get so much better, right?
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Siri
Siri by La Messe Basse is a one-woman show that isn’t a one woman show. Canadian actress Laurence Dauphinais is assisted by Siri, in the default female voice (for Canadian English, in Scotland the male voice is default).
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