Welcome to Little Lark of London!
Hello! My name is Kat and I am an American who has moved to London and is writing about her experiences with the culture of the city. My main focus is theatre in and around London but I am also fascinated by music, museums, and quirky sites! I have also written for a range of publications including BroadwayWorld UK and Curtain Call Magazine.
Profile Picture and Cover Art Illustrated by Kelly Lin Hayes
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REVIEW: Gingerline’s The Grand Expedition ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Standing in a queue in an alleyway, staring at shipping crates, ready for Gingerline’s The Grand Expedition: The Incredible Edible Journey, I had no idea what to expect. Were we going to be dining in the crates themselves? How was everyone going to fit? I was tempted to ask the staff members checking us in…
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REVIEW: Hadestown ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
There are some stories that stay with us for hundreds, even thousands of years. Sometimes they are heartbreaking tragedies that leave the audience weepings. Other times they are love stories that can bring hope to the world. And some are an incredible combination of both, making for a story full of love and pain that…
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REVIEW: Standing at the Sky’s Edge ⭐⭐⭐
“Time will change” Written by Chris Bush with music and lyrics by Richard Hawley, Standing at the Sky’s Edge tells stories from Park Hill, the famous estate in Sheffield. The audience witnesses three stories taking place in the same flat, with the timeling switching between three time periods – the 1960s/70s, the 1980s/90s and the…
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INTERVIEW: ‘It’s a way of touching the depths without becoming consumed by them.’: Dr. Adam Perchard on Bunburying
Bunburying (The Importance of Being Dr. Adam Perchard) – “part literary lecture, part rave, part confessional” – is Dr. Adam Perchard’s autobiographical show based on Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with Dr. Perchard about their show, which comes to London on Friday 1 March at Crazy…
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REVIEW: Kuan-wen Huang: Ilha Formosa ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“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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REVIEW: Nearly Lear, Riverside Studios Bitesize Festival ⭐⭐
“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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