Setting a play in a women’s domestic abuse refuge sounds like a reliable recipe for an evening of misery. But with Richard Cameron’s pen behind it, The Flannelettes manages to be not only thoughtful, poignant and challenging, but also warm and funny - and somehow...
125 years after the novel was originally published, and seven months after an acclaimed debut at the Edinburgh festival, Another Soup’s immersive musical vision of Dorian Gray is being staged at the King’s Head Theatre. A masterpiece of controversy from Oscar Wilde, it centres on...
It’s the ‘90s, and N-Trance’s Set You Free is throbbing through the rave scene of Leith, Edinburgh. Bodies are pulsating, sweating, criss-crossed by lasers in a frenzied assault, casting light, for just one beat, on a mess of drink, drugs and abuse. It’s a scene we’ve...
Dave Spencer - Director/writer Isaac Lusher - Musical Director/Orchestrator Bethany Greenwood - Creative Consultant Steffi Walker - Co-Writer Ruby Lawrence - Choreographer Helen Spencer - Costume Consultant Steph Taylor - Production Assistant Another Soup have announced a new, immersive musical production of Dorian Gray, which will play at the King's Head Theatre...
Long before Trainspotting emerged as a cult-classic blockbuster, came Irvine Welsh’s generation-defining novel. Translated for the stage by Harry Gibson long before the film was even conceived of, In Your Face Theatre’s production brings the show back to London, straight from a critically received sell-out...
Over 125 years ago, and almost a century before Adrian Mole or Bridget Jones were even a twinkle in their authors’ eyes, The Diary of a Nobody was being published as a series of episodes in Punch magazine. Later amalgamated and extended into an illustrated...
In the US, there’s an incredible 48,000 miles of, “freeway,” or motorway, with some statistics claiming that the average driver logs over 13,000 miles each year, or 37 miles every day. With so much time spent on the road, those little steel bubbles encapsulate a...