Plastic

Poleroid Theatre have just begun a run of Kenneth Emson’s Plastic at the Old Red Lion Theatre, prior to a brief stint at the Mercury Theatre in Essex towards the end of the month; it was first performed as a work-in-progress at the 2015 Latitude Festival. Directed by Josh Roche, it explores the transition from childhood to […]

The Woman in the Moon

Initially performed as a Read Not Dead piece, before a production at the Rose Playhouse, The Dolphin’s Back have begun a limited run of John Lyly’s The Woman in the Moon in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. It has been billed as his “astrological sex comedy”, and a likely source of inspiration for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer […]

The Taming of the Shrew (Lazarus Theatre)

Lazarus Theatre’s first offering of the summer is a 90-minute production of the notorious Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew, running for another week at Brockley Jack Theatre. Though often not played that way, it is technically a play within a play, as Sly is brought in and has something performed to suit his rather […]

Read Not Dead: Love’s Pilgrimage

On Sunday I attended only my second Read Not Dead staged performance – this time it was Love’s Pilgrimage, by John Fletcher (1647). It tells the story of Theodosia & Leocadia, two young women in love with the same man (the womaniser Mark-Antonio). He has left them both to join the army, so they set […]