The Beauty Parade came to the stage with perfect timing. A deeply affecting narrative telling the not-told-enough story of female…
Back to Berlin, CB4 Theatre, The Other Room at Porter’s Spring Fringe
March 5, 2020Fringe theatre is a different kind of beast from your average production – with the budget constraints and the…
Chiara Strazzulla reviews Les Vêpres Siciliennes, WNO
February 9, 2020First performed in 1855 at the Paris Opéra, Les Vêpres Siciliennes is a less frequently revisited entry in the Verdi catalogue, and…
Cinderella, New Theatre, Cardiff
December 12, 2019Last year I wrote a piece on how it was to go to the panto for the first time, as…
Swish, Dance House, Wales Millennium Centre
November 24, 2019Coming to the Dance House as part of the Cardiff Dance Festival, Swish is a work that cannot truly…
The Girl on the Train, New Theatre
November 13, 2019I 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…