Review: Foreign Body, Vault Theatre
“Sit and bear witness”. It’s difficult; of course it is. In Foreign Body, the product of some four years of development, Imogen Butler-Cole trains everything...
Frey Kwa Hawking
Feature: They who laugh last laugh longest: the dimensions of durational theatre
The artists aren’t just present, they’re relentless. Action Hero’s Slap Talk is more than a dialogue, and more even than a six-hour long dialogue, though its le...
Review: Corpus Christi, Arcola Theatre
I should have loved this play. I’m into Christ, I’m into being gay. Terrence McNally’s script, in the right hands and possibly another context, can probably rea...
Review: Electra, Bunker Theatre
DumbWise does not quite live up to their big claim that they have “reinvented” the gory myth of the house of Atreus with their Electra; unfortunately, there isn...
Review: Stardust, The Vaults
Vault Festival’s array of new productions continues with another solo show: Stardust, performed and devised by Miguel Hernando Torres Umbra and his company, Bla...
Review: Juliet and Romeo: A Guide to Long Life and Happy Marriage, Battersea Arts Centre
The Battersea Arts Centre is the kind of place you could imagine Romeo and Juliet meeting: the ceilings are high, the paint gaudy but peeling, the lighting soft...
Frey Kwa Hawking
Frey Kwa Hawking is a small person, full of hate, who lives and writes in London. He likes to go to the theatre and the cinema. Sometimes they let him in. He is trans and Malaysian-Chinese. He always orders xiao long bao. Follow him on Instagram at @absentobject.