Method, Motive and Murderer A chance to turn amateur sleuth and channel one’s inner Sherlock Holmes is being offered by Olivier Award-nominated immersive theatre company Les Enfants Terribles. They have teamed up with virtual reality specialists LIVR to create an interactive online murder mystery that combines elements of theatre, gaming, escape room and board games. […]
RSC – Work in Progress – Swingin’ the Dream in concert
Royal Shakespeare Company with the Young Vic and Theatre for a New Audience presents Swingin’ the Dream With the country in the grip of winter and living through a third lockdown, we are all looking to find ways of entertaining ourselves in the warmth of our own homes. Netflix is all very well and good, […]
The London Cabaret Club – Christmas Royale
A glamorous evening with live entertainment and fine dining After weeks of lockdown with the cold and gloomy winter weather taking its hold, I can’t tell you how excited I was to get the opportunity for a much-needed pre-Christmas night out (before the Tier 3 and now Tier 4 restrictions were announced). It was great […]
Tales for Winter at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and beyond
Royal Shakespeare Company Winter 2020 programme With theatre and other creative industries among the hardest hit since the pandemic began, it’s great to learn how the Royal Shakespeare Company is doing everything it can to engage with audiences again, despite restrictions on staging live productions at full capacity with Tales for Winter. Their new Winter […]
New Dark Age and The Knife of Dawn – ROH Review and Autumn Season Preview
The Royal Opera House reopens its doors. It was not raining last night when I walked from Leicester Square to the Royal Opera House though the skies were dark and the wind was picking up. I was going to the first live production I’ve seen since March, apprehensive and intrigued. London’s theatres, opera houses and […]
British Library Food Season
Online Food Stories from the British Library. One of the silver linings of lockdown has been the increased availability of lectures and talks online. This year I have attended – virtually – many events that I would not have been able to in person. As so many of these have been related to food this […]
A Tentative Restart for London Theatre – DEATH OF ENGLAND: DELROY.
Reopening The National Theatre and More. The loss of London’s theatre world during the COVID-19 Crisis has, for us at London-Unattached, had more of an impact on our vibrant city than anything else. Now things are slowly but surely beginning to open up again, albeit with a new normal. We’re cautiously optimistic and looking forward […]
Bush Theatre – August 2020 Reopening
Masterclasses and community engagement at the Bush Theatre. The Bush Theatre opened in 1972 above a pub on the Goldhawk Road, later moving to the old library building on Uxbridge Road. After a year-long £4.3 million renovation by architects Haworth Tompkins, it reopened in March 2017. Now internationally renowned ‘new writing powerhouse whose size belies […]
Dancing at Dusk – Pina Bausch Rite of Spring with École des Sables
An insight into Pina Bausch Rite of Spring – Dancing at Dusk. The international co-production between Sadler’s Wells, Pina Bausch Foundation and École des Sables was due to open in Dakar in March 2020 before touring the world. The May date for London was already in my diary. Just days before the premiere, all performances […]
Declan
Fundraising for The Actors Centre – Declan A silver lining of lockdown has been catching up with some of the theatre productions I have missed over the years and that have been shown free on various platforms. Sitting on my sofa of an evening with a wonderful play on my TV has seen me through […]