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londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 2h
At face value, there’s not much to this show – Michael Rosen approached the stage, to applause, sat down, and with a collection of loose papers in hand, begins to read what they all say.
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 1d
Past memories seemed to be a running theme in this double-bill, featuring nineteen dancers apparently over sixty years of age.
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londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 1d
In the over-revelatory publicity for Honeymoon Enchantress, there is a passing reference to “dark intent”. It’s a quote from Macbeth, but it also - and appositely – recalls L Don Schwarz’s infamous Night of Dark Intent.
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 1d
University students can sometimes be unhinged firebrands – and this play, opening in the week when a University of Oxford student was arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred, couldn’t have been timelier if it tried.
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 2d
Calum Finlay, billed as the playwright, begins his programme note by saying, "This is not my play".
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 2d
Presented as part of GRIMFEST 2025, 'Conspiracy' is a topical dark comedy that charts one man's descent into paranoia and madness as he gets sucked into the online world of conspiracy theories.
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 3d
An intriguing story, Uday Kumar (Mohit Mathur) is not an altogether morally perfect man, although it can be argued that desperate circumstances called for desperate measures.
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 3d
Theatre of Dreams is the latest creation of Hofesh Schechter, the Israeli-born German choreographer, dancer, and composer.
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 3d
Described in the publicity as a one-woman “horror play” and, more precisely, as “'a blend of horror and ghost story that digs up the past, present and future”, Skeleton is an intriguing piece of theatre about guilt and what it truly means to be haunted,
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 4d
Michael Jackson's legacy is one that will never be forgotten.
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 4d
A somewhat detailed account of life in the Armed Forces, it is no exaggeration to say that I’ve never come across a show quite like this one before – a statement which, of course, could be taken either way.
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 4d
Enthralling, electrifying, energising - this show puts a smile on your boat. Part Strictly Come Dancing, Fawlty Towers, and Kiss Me Kate, Top Hat the Musical is pure pleasure.
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 4d
Two Flat-Earthers travel to Antarctica to find the edge of the world…

When Honey’s sister dies, she is left with a curious yearning for the South Pole and endless questions. Christopher knows to question everything.
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 4d
Disney Theatrical Group today announces full cast and creative team for their brand-new stage adaptation of The Greatest Showman, based on the 2017 smash-hit film, with songs by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, book by Tim Federle and direction and choreography by
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 4d
Blackeyed Theatre has now been in existence for twenty years, mostly touring adaptations of novels to 'mid-scale' theatres all over the United Kingdom and being totally self-funding.
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 4d
The 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst by the United Federated Forces of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a short-lived far-left organisation in the United States which almost nobody referred to by its full title, usually called ‘the SLA’ for short, was a few
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 5d
In her acclaimed work, On Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross details what she calls “The Five Stages of Grief”: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance.
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londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 5d
In January 1966. Hedy Lamarr, one-time movie icon but not seen on screen since 1957, was arrested in the parking lot of the May Co. department store on Hollywood’s Wilshire Boulevard.
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 6d
Casting has officially been announced for the the critically-acclaimed CARLOS ACOSTA’S NUTCRACKER IN HAVANA, choreographed and directed by Carlos Acosta CBE.
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 7d
'Surreal' is one of those words which can cover a multitude of definitions and is often misleadingly and lazily employed.
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londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 8d
How do you follow a massive hit touring around the country with a five-star rated version of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express?
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 8d
Pour Decisions is a fifty-minute two-handed play at present being staged at The Glitch in Lower Marsh, five minutes from the Old Vic, and one of my favourite 'fringe' venues: in reality, just a basement space with two pillars which hold the ceiling up,
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 8d
The usual perception of shoplifting is that it’s an activity that goes against the concept of working hard for material wealth - but if you think those are ‘weasel words’, some of the ideas and theories introduced in A Case Study of Shoplifting are worthy of
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 8d
It’s now getting to that time of year when Halloween creeps up on us like a ghost in the night. This is a time when ghost stories become very popular for both stage and screen.
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londontheatre1.bsky.social
londontheatre1.bsky.social @londontheatre1.bsky.social · 9d
East Bank Stratford is the much heralded, brand new cultural and educational district within Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, that brings together branches of world-class institutions including Sadler’s Wells, the BBC, University College London and the V&A.
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