If you’ve read Angela Carter’s final novel, Wise Children, you’ll understand just how gargantuan an undertaking it would be to adapt for the stage – but when the person taking on that challenge is Emma Rice, you can be certain it’s a match made in heaven. Thematically and content-wise it is an ideal piece of work […]
Read More Wise Children (2018)After choosing in 2016 to focus on Shakespeare (in the 400th anniversary of his death), I went completely different this year and made it my mission to learn more about, and see more shows featuring, puppets. I have a longstanding love of puppets, grown mainly from Edd the Duck and the Muppets – and there […]
Read More Puppets 2017: a summaryWe may have just bid Emma Rice farewell on the Globe stage, but thankfully there’s still the final winter season to come: The Winter Selection! And it’s quite an eclectic selection, ranging from Shakespeare to new writing, puppetry to musicals – like a chocolate box, there really is something for everyone. As with the theme and […]
Read More Winter Selection: previewTo mark 2,000 years since Ovid’s death (a classical poet particularly favoured by William Shakespeare), the RSC is currently running a ‘Rome’ season – as part of this, Gregory Doran’s puppet version of Venus and Adonis has been revived for a short run in the Swan Theatre. The narrative poem, dedicated to the Earl of Southampton, […]
Read More Venus and AdonisTucked away in between two of Islington’s busiest thoroughfares, Little Angel Theatre was established by John Wright in 1961 from the wreckage of an old temperance hall. It first came to my attention at the end of last year when I heard of a show Kneehigh were putting on there in conjunction with the theatre […]
Read More Little Angel Theatre: London’s Hidden Gem
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