“J’ouvert” at The Theatre503
Over the August bank holiday weekend, people of West Indian heritage have been celebrating their...
Read MorePosted by Laura Kressly | 9th Jul 2019 | The Play's The Thing UK
Over the August bank holiday weekend, people of West Indian heritage have been celebrating their...
Read MorePosted by Laura Kressly | 3rd Jul 2019 | The Play's The Thing UK
In the programme notes, director Graham Watts states, “there are hundreds of astonishing plays...
Read MorePosted by Laura Kressly | 3rd Jul 2019 | The Play's The Thing UK
After graduating from City College of New York in the 1960s, Assata Shakur joined the Black...
Read MorePosted by Laura Kressly | 13th Jun 2019 | The Play's The Thing UK
John Gay wrote The Beggar’s Opera in 1728 to reflect a London ridden with corrupt and dangerous...
Read MorePosted by Amy Toledano | 13th Jun 2019 | The Play's The Thing UK
Last performed at the National Theatre, Simon Stephen’s Harper Regan is great at making an...
Read MorePosted by Laura Kressly | 12th Jun 2019 | The Play's The Thing UK
It’s 2019 and we’re in purgatory. Some (many?) might say hell, considering the late capitalist...
Read MorePosted by Laura Kressly | 11th Jun 2019 | The Play's The Thing UK
Aisha and Morgan have to go to school one day in August, like almost every other 16-year-old in...
Read MorePosted by Laura Kressly | 10th Jun 2019 | The Play's The Thing UK
In 1930s St Louis, Missouri, housing laws ensured black people and white people lived in separate...
Read MorePosted by Laura Kressly | 9th Jun 2019 | The Play's The Thing UK
Michael and his best mate Charlie are typical teenage boys – they just want to hang out and play...
Read MorePosted by Laura Kressly | 8th Jun 2019 | The Play's The Thing UK
The patriarchy has a lot to answer for, including what must be a ridiculous profit margin for the...
Read MorePosted by Laura Kressly | 31st May 2019 | The Play's The Thing UK
If theatre has a reputation for being inaccessible and snobbishly high cultured, opera is doubly...
Read MorePosted by Laura Kressly | 29th May 2019 | The Play's The Thing UK
Sometimes writing reviews is easy. Thoughts are fully-formed, and words that convey them easily...
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