Juraj Benko’s experimental one-hander at the intimate Cockpit Theatre is a unafraid exploration of the lasting impact of childhood trauma and the innate longing for love and connection that makes us human…
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Kidd Pivot is a dance theatre company founded by Canadian choreographer and artistic director Crystal Pite. Ahead of the UK premiere of its latest show, Assembly Hall, opening at Sadler’s Wells next week, we sat down with one of the ensemble’s performers, Renée Sigouin….
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Powerful spoken word theatre from playwright Henry Madd explores the highs and lows of small-town adolescence and the nuances of the friendships we make in these formative and turbulent years.
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The Charcoal Heads is a sequence of large-scale drawings and oil paintings tethered to a formative period of Frank Auerbach’s career. On display for the first time as a comprehensive collection at The Courtauld Gallery…
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Tucked away above a pub in a leafy corner of Highgate Village, Upstairs at the Gatehouse is a hidden gem of a theatre – and it’s latest offering, Songs for a New World, is the perfect production for this intimate venue…
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Kin is a deeply personal story for Lahav, inspired by the journey made by his grandmother in 1932 as she fled persecution in Yemen and travelled to Palestine. Ninety years later her experience still resonates, and serves to highlight the ongoing and indiscriminate cruelties faced by immigrants and refugees across the world…
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Kathryn Gardner’s Fairytale on Church Street is The Cockpit’s first ‘homegrown’ show in 35 years. Her original story celebrates the importance of the arts in local communities and embraces the style of fringe theatre organisations like The Cockpit fight to preserve…
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Sophie Anderson’s young adult novel, the basis of the play, is in the second camp. Inspired by stories told by her Prussian grandmother, Anderson’s Baba Yaga is an eccentric but well-meaning old lady (played with comic idiosyncrasy by Lisa Howard)…
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New writing from rising star Kat Rose-Martin is a moving comedy drama exploring the highs and lows of friendship, young love and ambition, played out against the sticky nostalgia of 2012 club nights….
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