Review: Belleville, Donmar Warehouse
Amy Herzog’s Belleville, at the Donmar Warehouse this winter, grasps at a few things: the experiences of ‘expats’ vs. ‘immigrants’ in foreign countries, the rom...
Paris
Guest Blog: Choose the props for a Parisian theatre festival
Can it really be only seven months? I’m pretty familiar with how living in a foreign city can do strange things with time – how the density of experience spe...
Review: The Father, Wyndham’s Theatre
Writer Florian Zeller has expressed his keenness on this piece - on this journey to not simply be voyeuristic but for the audience to become lost in a mental la...
Guest Blog: Chris Newens – “No foreigner ever really lives in Paris”
There is a line by the English writer Geoff Dyer that suggests no foreigner ever really lives in Paris, they just pass through: “You may spend ten years passing...
Review: Back Door, Tristan Bates Theatre
Seen at the Edinburgh Fringe earlier this year, Back Door tells a story similar to Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. Now set in Paris, Tabitha (Laura Louise Baker...
Review: La Bohème, London Coliseum
Call me crazy but I'm partial to a love story with some believability. I find myself feeling frustrated and bored with my experience of Puccini's La Bohème, whi...