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 [...]

To call FellSwoop Theatre’s fifties cabaret bar aesthetic “realistic” would be a criminal understatement. By framing the story of Madame Souza’s fight to rescue her grandson from the crooks who have kidnapped him during the Tour de France as a kind of eclectic floor show, this ten-piece ensemble ensure that their audience are unable to [...]

In his new, skilfully told solo show at Bristol Old Vic, Tristan Sturrock performs the story of his own brush with death; a tumble from a wall in 2004 that left him with a broken neck. Sturrock and director Katy Carmichael do well to steer clear from staging the tale as a saccharine tearjerker, and [...]

Christmas may feel like it’s long gone now we’re steeped in the cold, dark days of January, but the company of Hull Truck Theatre’s The Flint Street Nativity is keeping the spirit of the season well and truly alive. The adult cast brings Tim Firth’s comedic study of a junior school nativity play to life with enthusiasm [...]