ALT A REVIEW has your May Bank Holiday covered, so sit back and relax while reading this roundup. From small runs to big West End shows, there is everything you need for pure indulgence, entertainment, and education. Witness and Nought and crosses pulls at the emotional heartstrings, while The Ideal Husband tells a satirical tale of forgiveness in love and moral hypocrisy and finally to the stage an educational new play. Sickle Moon delivers powerful information about sickle and its impact on the black community and there is so much more below!!!.
Lyric Theatre: An Ideal Husband
This production of Oscar Wilde’s an ideal husband, follows Sir Robert Chiltern, a wealthy, reputable politician whose career is threatened by the blackmailing Mrs.Cheveley, who reveals a shocking past secret.
Noel Coward Theatre: Dracula
Cynthia Erivo stars in a one-woman, “cine-theatre” adaptation of Dracula.
Deep in the desolate wilderness stands a crumbling castle; a mysterious presence lurking within. For centuries, Count Dracula has waited in hiding. Now, this phantom is coming out of the shadows. As the Count sets his sights on a fresh target, a new kind of terror begins.
Hackney Empire: Nought and Crosses
In House Review: One Flew Over the cuckoo’s Nest
In House Review: This production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, adapted by Dale Wasserman and directed by Clint Dyer at The Old Vic, offers a striking and politically charged reinterpretation of a familiar story.
Sadlers wells: Breakin Convention
Break-in’ Convention is at the vanguard of the global development of the hip hop theatre genre, through its world-renowned festivals. From jaw-dropping performances, live DJs, dance workshops, graffiti, emcees, and spontaneous cyphers all over Sadler’s Wells in an unforgettable experience.
Unicorn Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Desperate to escape their unhappy fates, young lovers Demetrius, Lysander, Helena and Hermia flee Athens for the moonlit woods. There – along with a band of amateur actors – they fall under the spell of mischievous fairy Puck and tumble into a dream world where illusion and reality are hilariously confused.
Bush Theatre: I’m Not Being Funny
A new play about hope, endings and how to survive if a knock knock joke hits you in the gut, I’m Not Being Funny is written by Piers Black (Catching Comets, Pleasance & UK tour), directed by Traverse Theatre Associate Artist Bryony Shanahan (Bloody Elle, West End) and produced by Prentice Productions (How I Learned To Swim, Brixton House).
Peckham Theatre: Witness
Witness at Theatre Peckham brings Alex Wheatle’s powerful story to the stage.
Cornell navigates life in a Pupil Referral Unit full of young people marginalised by mainstream schools. When he witnesses a shocking act of violence, his world changes forever leaving him torn between speaking out and risking everything, or staying silent to protect those closest to him.
Hammersmith Hospital: Sickle Moon
Crescent Cell, Sickle Moon is a powerful and imaginative invitation to healthcare professionals, people living with sickle cell, and the wider public to reflect on what compassionate, effective hospital care could look like for people experiencing sickle cell crises.
Holloway Theatre: The P Word
Zafar flees homophobic persecution in Pakistan to seek asylum in the UK. Londoner Bilal (self-styled as ‘Billy’) is ground down by years of Grindr and the complexity of being a brown gay man. Their worlds are about to change forever..
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