Little Lark of London

“I love my mom, I love my country, but I feel I can only love them from a distance.” Kuan-wen Huang: Ilha Formosa begins with an introductory video to Taiwan, illustrating how propaganda works to try to convince people that Taiwan is Chinese. When he enters the stage, Huang throws a balloon into the audience,

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“The story that I’m about to tell you is so sad. There will be tears.” Nearly Lear, written and performed by Susanna Hamnett, is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear told from the perspective of Lear’s fool, who in the play is not given a name, but in Hamnett’s work is given not only a

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“If you pull the threads apart, it’ll fray” Hamnet, Lolita Chakrabarti’s stage adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, tells a story of love and grief through the eyes of Agnes Hathawy and William Shakespeare as they struggle with growing up in abusive households, falling in love, having children and losing their son, Hamnet. Madeleine Mantock stars

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“There’s a right way and a wrong way” Written by Jack Thorne and directed by Sam Mendes, The Motive and the Cue is a dramatic interpretation of the rehearsal process for Broadway’s iconic 1964 Hamlet, directed by Sir John Gielgud and starring Richard Burton. What made the show so fascinating is that it was created

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“Are we ready to be buried ourselves?” When entering the theatre for Bury Me, written and directed by Mina Moniri, you are greeted with a projection of a clementine projected onto the backwall, rotating and shining line the sun. Once the audience is seated, we are immediately thrown into a funeral, a sharp and dark

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“A bit Fleabag, isn’t it?” Walking into Dazzling, you are greeted with a large white backdrop covered in sayings, with a spotlight shining on the word “dazzling.” On the stage itself, things are haphazardly strewn around and an actor is messing around with them, trying to throw straws into glass bottles, switching lights on and

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