PLUSBUS

February 10, 2012

Culture: Stage

Edtitors Choices

The Changeling

Beautiful Beatrice-Joanna is in love - so she hires the repellent De Flores to kill the man her father wants her to marry. But once the deed’s done Beatrice discovers it’s not money or jewels that De Flores claims as his reward, but something far more precious

News

1 DAY SCREEN ACTING COURSE with MARK McGANN

Screen Acting Days with Mark McGann at Hardwick House tend to be more selective, less 'public' affairs than the usual theatre-based classes run by Drama Direct Ltd


Stage Reviews

SHOWSTOPPER!

Following their sell-out spring season, Showstopper! Will return to the Ambassadors this Autumn


LIGHTED FOOTED STUDENTS AS GRACEFUL AS SWANS!

A breathtaking opening dance by Kensington and Chelsea College students set the scene for an extravagant adaptation of Swan Lake at the famous Sadler’s Wells Theatre.


Review: Spring Awakening

Take a play written some one hundred years ago, littered with suicide, sex, abuse and painful innocence, add a cast of emotionally charged teenagers and a soundtrack of brash rock music, and Spring Awakening is born. Emma Powell tells you just how good it is.


Another Paradise - Theatre review

As a proud and practicing misanthrope, it is hard not to find Sayan Kent’s new play appealing, regardless of its shortcomings, says John Darley.


A Photography Exhibition by Panos Pictures

As Britain prepares to commemorate 200 years since the abolition of the slave trade, a new Panos exhibition at St Paul's Cathedral reveals how human trafficking is a bitter reality for thousands of women, men and children in the UK today. Slave Britain artfully documents the ordinary lives and everyday locations caught up in trafficking and calls for an end to this illegal 21st century trade. The


I Like Mine With a Kiss

For his final production after a wonderful ten years as artistic director at the Bush, Mike Bradwell has chosen to direct a play by one of his great discoveries, Georgia Fitch.


Interviews

The life of a City boy - Alex: The Comedy

In this time of financial crisis, most want to hate the arrogant City banker causing all the trouble. But why not see the world from his perspective instead, says Jonathan Williams.