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  1. Singing Up for Shakespeare

    Singing Up for Shakespeare  

    Susan Elkin visits Arnhem Wharf Primary, a school committed to the arts, and is inspired by seeing the Ex Cathedra Choir in rehearsal I’m sitting in a classroom at the attractively light, bright and modern Arnhem Wharf Primary School on the Isle of Dogs in Tower Hamlets on a spring Monday morning. 30 eight and […]

  2. Creating a monster

    Creating a monster  

    Adrian McDougall, Yvonne Stone and Eliot Guiralarocca talk to Susan Elkin about Blackeyed Theatre and its forthcoming new show, Frankenstein. “We specialise in touring small scale shows to venues all over the country” says Adrian McDougall who founded Bracknell-based Blackeyed Theatre Company in 2004. The company has just completed a successful six month tour of […]

  3. Inside The Monkey House

    Inside The Monkey House  

    Not all drama schools are the same. Susan Elkin takes a peek inside Fourth Monkey’s new premises to discover a communal hub with a strong vocational drive.   Stage smoke, sinister lights, shadow work, love, murder, a naked man, revenge, a castration, a female protagonist, glee, lust and much more. Welcome to the murky world […]

  4. EXHIBITION: The Common Strand – archetypes and stereotypes in Photography

    EXHIBITION: The Common Strand – archetypes and stereotypes in Photography  

    Graham Hooper leads us through several of the major photography exhibitions running in London and finds he sees the world differently as a result

  5. Theatre Review: Kinky Boots

    Theatre Review: Kinky Boots  

    Based on the film written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth, Kinky Boots is one of those gloriously English stories about (fairly) ordinary people overcoming human problems in an unlikely but theatrically spectacular way. It’s in the same tradition as The Full Monty and Brassed Off. It makes a gloriously vibrant musical and it’s hard […]

  6. Book Review: The Blackthorn Key By Kevin Sands

    Book Review: The Blackthorn Key By Kevin Sands  

    Book Review of The Blackthorn Key By Kevin Sands. Set in London in the 1660s, the story revolves around Christopher Rowe, the apprentice to a Master Apothecary named Benedict Blackthorn. Christopher is eager to learn and please his benefactor. Blackthorn, recognizing his young student’s potential, teaches him everything from chemistry and Latin to church history and cryptography. It’s well that he does, as Christopher will need all his wits and knowledge to solve the mystery of the murdered apothecaries happening around him.

  7. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF… Simon Stephens

    A DAY IN THE LIFE OF… Simon Stephens  

    Simon Stephens is one of Britain’s best known playwrights. The National Theatre production of his adaptation of Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time has been seen live by over a million people.

  8. Theatre Review: Guys and Dolls

    Theatre Review: Guys and Dolls  

    If you feel like taking a school party to a traditional, roof-raising musical then you won’t do much better than this production of Guys and Dolls, a Chichester Festival Theatre show which transferred into the West End. It’s glitzy, funny and pulsating with energy as it sails triumphantly on to its feel good finale.

  9. Book Review: Facing the Fear – an actor’s guide to overcoming stage fright

    Book Review: Facing the Fear – an actor’s guide to overcoming stage fright  

    Insightful, empowering and reassuring, Facing the Fear is a book for any actor – for those who are experiencing or have previously suffered from stage fright, as well as for those who want to be fully prepared just in case that day ever comes!

  10. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF… Samantha Lane

    A DAY IN THE LIFE OF… Samantha Lane  

    Samantha Lane, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Little Angel Theatre, Islington chats to Susan Elkin