“A woman can be perceived as two things: an object of sex, or an object of power”, says Hillary Clinton, halfway through Devil with the Blue Dress. Monica Lewinsky adds:…
Zoetrope is a Virtual Reality experience that has started off CircusFest 2018 at the Roundhouse. Circusfest celebrates all things circus, combined with other forms of art, and it celebrates the…
Caveat for the whole post: I haven’t yet seen Everybody’s Talking About Jamie or The Ferryman… I’ve also omitted the categories in which I’ve not seen more than one of…
The Vaults is a great location for Trainspotting, as the trains pass over the tunnel. The entire cast violently dances to a rave as the audience enters, with the same…
In light of Mark Shenton’s recent decision not to review productions where actors and crew are not paid fairly, I decided that it was appropriate for Upper Circle to take…
So, that’s it – The Vault Festival is over. At Upper Circle we covered a selection of things that went on, and here they are in order of, well, how…
All Or Nothing – The Ambassadors Theatre After a very successful run at the Arts Theatre, All Or Nothing is moving around the corner to The Ambassadors Theatre. Tickets direct…
Reminiscent of Tracy Emin’s ‘My Bed,’ a rumpled, messy mattress surrounded by personal detritus fills the small stage of the Tristan Bates Theatre. With its suggestively mussed sheets, it could…
Ruthless! The Musical premiered off-Broadway 25 years ago as a parody of musicals like Gypsy and Mame, and was revived in 2015 before transferring to the West End this month.…
Should we review productions with unpaid actors – a response to Mark Shenton.