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VENUE: UPSTAIRS AT THE GATEHOUSE >>> Halloween is more consistent with well-dressed children politely trick-or-treating with their better-dressed parents - as was the case in Highgate anyway -  these days, but as FAST began, there was something suitably spooky about the howling...

VENUE: SADLERS WELLS >>> Love in Action is Japanese reimagining of Russian novelist Dostoevsky’s The Brother’s Karamazov, by Japanese company NODA MAP. Written and directed by Hideki Noda, the play is set in a courtroom in Nagasaki, Japan at the end...

VENUE: BARONS COURT THEATRE >>> When I asked my friend if she wanted to come to Barons Court Theatre with me on Saturday evening to see Victoria Buse’s one-woman tragi-comedy Not In The Mood For Quiche Anymore, she announced that she had just told her sister she wasn’t in the mood for frittata anymore...

VENUE: SOUTHWARK PLAYOUSE, BOROUGH >>> Land of the Free centres around the life of John Wilkes Booth, the actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. If America can be considered a cultural...

VENUE: FINBOROUGH THEATRE >>> As we walk into the theatre, the music playing puts us straight into the mood. Soft jazz transports us into the world of Beryl Cook, or at least her studio in Plymouth in 2005. A great deal of love and research went into this one-woman show by writer...

VENUE: SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE, BOROUGH >>> If you had the opportunity to live forever, would you take it? This question lies at the heart of Emma Hemingford’s Foreverland currently playing at Southwark Playhouse. In this dystopian new production, a young couple, Alice (Emma McDonald) and Jay (Christopher York) are...