David Colvin on Macbeth at the Lyric Hammersmith
After a national and international tour Richard Twyman’s stylish, contemporary and gut-wrenching production for English Touring Theatre (ETT) comes to…
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Sean Gandini on Heka / MimeLondon 2025
Gandini Juggling is an ever-evolving ensemble made up of a virtuosic core group of jugglers, they regularly expand to include…
Julie Tenret, Sicaire Durieux and Sandrine Heyraud on Dimanche / MimeLondon 2025
MimeLondon’s 2025 programme concludes with the London premiere of Dimanche by Belgian companies Focus & Chaliwaté at Sadler’s Wells Peacock…
La Manékine review – The Pit, Barbican, London ★★★☆☆
This striking blend of theatrical mediums from the French theatre company La Pendue, created by Estelle Charlier and Romuald Collinet, sees puppetry, visual…
Matteo Frau and Mina Trapp on Five Lines / MimeLondon 2025
Led by Matteo Frau and Mina Trapp, Frau Trapp brings their show Five Lines to this year’s MimeLondon festival in…
Yngvild Aspeli on Moby Dick / MimeLondon 2025
Yngvild Aspeli directs this stage adaptation of Herman Melville’s great novel about ambition, obsession and the power of nature, featuring…
James Riordan and Raymond Keane on Not a Word / MimeLondon 2025
Celebrating those who ‘took the boat’, a forgotten class of Irish emigrants who helped build countries that were not their…
Theatre to see in 2025 – Part 5: Shakespeare
For the final part of our Theatre to See in 2025 we have none other than Shakespeare. How could you…
Estelle Charlier and Martin Kaspar Orkestar on La Manékine / MimeLondon 2025
Created by Estelle Charlier and Romuald Collinet in 2003, La Pendue create distinctive puppetry performances that tackle complex narratives. Based…
Theatre to see in 2025 – Part 4: Second Chances
It can’t just be me who gets massive FOMO when a new production rolls into town and it’s a play…