“Daring Drama! Clever Characterizations! Breath-taking situations! Aboard a mystery ship bound for an unknown port! A boy and a girl, madly in love, unmarried, seek a short cut to happiness. Follow them through the mists of adventure into a shadow world, vague and mysterious. Romance and drama – and an undying love! Outward Bound will [...]

Philip Ridley’s The Pitchfork Disney in its revival at Arcola Theatre leaves you with more questions than it provides answers. Ridley’s text is wondrously descriptive, evoking a post-apocalyptic world where each character resorts to their primitive nature. Locked in a house and abandoned by their parents, Presley (Chris New) and Haley Stray (Mariah Gale) devour [...]

Despite the years spent visiting theatres in and around London, this is the first time I’ve stumbled across the Tabard. Above a pub of the same name and a minute’s walk from Turnham Green tube, the theatre has an impressive record stretching back to 1985. Firstly concentrating on new writing the venue, currently owned and [...]

Propeller has a reputation for re-imagining Shakespeare through an innovative approach to the text and a physical aesthetic. Artistic Director Edward Hall’s interpretation of The Winter’s Tale is no exception, yet the company openly embraces Elizabethan performance traditions, with productions featuring all-male casts. But is there an appeal to this version of Shakespeare’s notoriously problematic play that goes above and [...]