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VENUE: HAMPTON HILL THEATRE >>> From the moment the curtain opens, the magic begins. The minimal set makes way for a shimmering lighting design, shone onto stage to ceiling white calico panels, and occasional bubbles (a popular choice with the audience!)...

VENUE: SEVEN DIALS PLAYHOUSE >>> Like many other families across the UK, we look forward to sitting down and watching the Christmas specials every year. The Christmas Thing, which is running at Seven Dials Playhouse until the 21st of December, has everything a good Christmas...

VENUE: BARONS COURT THEATRE >>> I became well acquainted with Spanglish over my four years at Exeter University, trying - and often failing - to remember that the most important part of language learning is being able to communicate. But my kind of Spanglish is very different...

LION & UNICORN THEATRE: >>> A solitary white bench sits centre stage. A well-dressed woman enters, blue chambray shirt and sand coloured chinos with a smart belt. We realise she is on a Northern Line tube station waiting for the next train from the announcements. A young man, fresh from The City...

WHITE BEAR THEATRE >>> From the moment you walk into the theatre, you are met with a warm welcome from the cast and enter into a play within a play: Seven Days in the Life of Simon Labrosse. But who is Simon Labrosse? In the midst of Canada’s 1993 recession, struggling to find employment...

PARK THEATRE >>> In Harry McDonald’s adaptation of Ali Smith’s novel Autumn, political turmoil gushes like a tempest through an archipelago of very emotive plot lines. It’s 2016. 32-year-old Elisabeth Demand (Rebecca Banatvala), a history of art lecturer...