In Zecora Ura’s Hotel Medea the audience are invited to attend a six hour long performance that begins at midnight and ends with breakfast at six in the morning. Broken into three parts, it is a mammoth meeting of audience, actors and dancers with the story of love and hatred, as Medea seeks revenge upon [...]

Regents Park Open Air Theatre is a naturally brilliant setting for Into the Woods. The stage seems to have sprung up from the surrounding trees in a tangle of wood and metal like a mistreated Sylvania Families play set. It’s a tree house any kid would long to play in. There are few songs from [...]

Laurin Campbell says: Where better to explore issues of hierarchy and construct than the theatre? Talal Mahmoud’s The Play highlights the prevalence of predefined roles and male dominance in Arab cultures, using the stage as an allegory. Whilst referencing examples of female exploitation through arranged marriages, physical abuse and misogynistic notions of the woman as [...]

In Nidal Al Atway’s play Al Jabra, a group of young teens have dared each other to enter an abandoned warehouse at night. When one of them slams the door in which they came into the building, they are stuck inside the warehouse until someone finds a way out, or they are shown the way [...]