Review: Secret Cinema – The best ways to experience The Grand Budapest Hotel
Emily Shipp
Review: Voyeuristic and intense, The Hotel Plays cause a stir at the Langham
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The atmosphere of the Hotel Plays is of almost suffocating intensity. You smell the perfume and watch as heated arguments play out between the bedsheets and the dressing table. Claustrophobic, stifling; you inhale it all, intriguing and intrusive at the same time, like poking around in the dark corners of other people's lives.
Review: New playwright Larry Belling launches ‘Stroke of Luck’
REVIEW: Little Black Book – The perfect festive antidote
A man is getting ready for work in his small French apartment. The door is ajar and in walks a woman with a suitcase. Seemingly, they have never met before.
What follows is a charming play about relationships, power balances and the question of the mysterious Monsieur Ferrand.
INTERVIEW: “This could implode” – Nish Kumar on why the best gigs happen when you’re riding a knife edge
Nish Kumar is a veritable gentleman. But that doesn't mean he's not prepared to chat about the awkwardness of watching sex scenes with his parents. Or the consequences of binge drinking on late night train travel. Or how to correct someone who is incorrectly racist.
Interview: Rising star Amy Morgan talks accents, truth-telling and taking direction from Kathy Burke
Boys, bad habits and chastity are all on the agenda as Once a Catholic opens at the Tricycle Theatre this month and the play promises plenty of laughs with direction from the one and only Kathy Burke. Amy Morgan plays convent school girl Mary McGinty. We caught up with her between rehearsals to find out more.
Review: ‘The Dead Wait’, written by Emily Shipp
INTERVIEW: Actor Maynard Eziashi on human bonds and core strength in The Dead Wait.
Maynard Eziashi plays wounded black freedom fighter George in the latest production of Paul Herzberg’s The Dead Wait. Run-Riot's Emily Shipp spoke to him about the rehearsal process, getting into character and what it’s like to act with the writer in the room.
INTERVIEW: Mega-ballads, volcanic ash and ‘letting go’ – the indefinable Clerke & Joy
