I came to this stage adaptation of Paula Hawkins’ bestselling book without having previously read the book itself or watched…
Hela, The Other Room
November 8, 2019It is quite fitting that the closing installment in the Other Room’s Violence Series is also the hardest to…
Frankenstein, New Theatre, Cardiff
October 29, 2019The Hallowe’en season is one for iconic monsters, and few are as iconic as Frankenstein’s creature. After so many incarnations…
The Story, The Other Room
October 12, 2019Since the very inception of the genre, dystopia has mostly been used as a tool to comment on current social…
The Intelligence Park, Music Theatre Wales
October 9, 2019Since its original opening in 1990, Gerald Barry’s very first opera has not seen many outings, and it is…
The Cunning Little Vixen, WNO, WMC
October 6, 2019One of the best things about the past few seasons at the WNO has been their commitment in exploring and…
Rigoletto, WNO, WMC
October 5, 2019Giuseppe Verdi once described Rigoletto as his best opera, and it is certainly, from a musical standpoint, one of his…
Carmen, WNO, Wales Millennium Centre
September 22, 2019WNO opens its Autumn season of 2019 with a take on Bizet’s classic, directed by Jo Davies, to be repeated…
American Nightmare, The Other Room At Porter’s
September 13, 2019By now established as a spearhead for new and alternative theatre in Cardiff, The Other Room at Porter’s has chosen…
Kinky Boots, Wales Millennium Centre
July 24, 2019In many ways, Kinky Boots is already a classic of musical theatre. It is in its plot structure, a somewhat…