Gill Martin

VENUE: SADLERS WELLS >>> As an exercise in soft power and propaganda it was a triumph. The audience was completely won over by the power and precision, aerial acrobatics and sheer spectacle of dance-meets-martial arts at the London premiere of Wing Chun at Sadler’s Wells...

VENUE: JERMYN STREET THEATRE >>> ‘Perhaps’, muses Abigail Pickard Price on her quest to bring a brand new production of Pride & Prejudice to the London stage, ‘some might have thought us mad trying to bring this epic tale to life with only three actors.’ ‘I haven’t quite decided if we are or aren’t yet, but it is a rather exciting challenge.’ Crazy or not, she has...

VENUE: THEATRO TECHNIS >>> Paris has the Olympics but hey, London has the Camden Fringe, now in full swing till August 25, and rivalling Edinburgh. Four weeks of theatre, comedy and performance across North London and as exhausting and entertaining as anything the athletes can throw at us...

VENUE: BRIDEWELL THEATRE >>> A glossy programme depicting a burning witch, a noose and haunted house bore the legend: She Died.  Her Curse Lives On. Two faceless figures top to toe in black, monks’ cowls over their bowed heads, stand motionless at the curtained entrance...

VENUE: Southwark Playhouse, Borough >>> A no-holds barred re-working of Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece, the Picture of Dorian Gray, explodes onto the London stage this summer with Dorian: The Musical. A cast of impossibly young, talented, beautiful and oh so thin people dig into a deep, dark underworld...

VENUE: TABARD >>> Have you ever had one of those days when events conspire against you?  When you are frustrated at every turn?  When even the simplest conversations are misconstrued? Driven to distraction by incessant ringing on front door and phone? When, quite frankly, you...