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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...

VENUE: THE PLACE >>> After a hectic week, I couldn’t have been more excited to take time out and attend last night’s performance of Jazz Conversations at The Place. Miles Davis, a live jazz band and jazz dance on a Friday night was the tonic I thought I was looking for. Not an inch of guilt set in as I made myself comfortable in the auditorium...

VENUE: BARONS COURT THEATRE >>> Many of us find the idea of twins intriguing; two people that were once a single cell, now walking the earth separately, yet still deeply interconnected. It forces us to question the layers of the self and what forms an identity...

VENUE: ARCOLA THEATRE >>> The Grimeborn Opera Festival returns to the Arcola Theatre from the 14th of August for its seventeenth year of radical opera, featuring seven innovative productions from across the globe.  Today was Mr. Punch at the Opera...