Once you’ve watched enough coming-of-age dramas, the expectations of the genre are clear. If This Is Normal, Chatback Theatre’s Vaults Festival debut, doesn’t necessarily subvert this formula, but rather gives…
Lost Laowais is the debut play of actor/writer David East, inspired by his own experiences living in China. A love letter to one of Asia’s largest metropolises, it follows the…
It’s VAULT Festival 2020! Kicking off its innovative eight week programme is Santi & Naz, a coming of age story set against the backdrop of a small village in pre-partition…
On 9th February 1942, Carole King is born Carole Joan Klein in Brooklyn, New York. With a career that’s seen more than 400 of her compositions recorded by over 1000…
Bar, Rum, Glug! You’ve seen a jolly Juliet, a mortal Macbeth, even an out-of-it Oliver! Now one of literatures most popular Christmas tales gets the dickensianly drunkenly treatment; Magnificent Bastard…
In an age that is rife with secrecy, corruption, fake news and criminal activity, the world needs people who will speak the truth no matter the price. Based on Can…
Receiving its UK premiere at the Arcola Theatre, Lisa D’Amour’s Anna Bella Eema is a dazzling southern gothic fairy-tale, where the fantastic emerges from the mundane. Set upon a base…
Last week, Roald Dahl would have turned 103. An author who has been able to speak to kids and grown-ups alike all over the world; many of his characters are…
“I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.” “How strange?” yells out a member of the audience. “Stranger than Brexit!” comes the reply. The experience…