Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre unveils Spring 2019 programme
Three world premieres have been announced as part of Sherman Theatre’s last season under artistic director Rachel O’Riordan.
Three world premieres have been announced as part of Sherman Theatre’s last season under artistic director Rachel O’Riordan.
Actors and readers should come to The Oberon Book Of Queer Monologues ready to be armed and enthused with diversity, representation and, above all, pride.
What a story. Eve will be one of the most honest accounts of change and transgression that you will see on the Fringe.
Chris Goode and Company and Battersea Arts Centre present Every One by Jo Clifford – a take on the medieval morality play Everyman. Clifford’s exploration of grief and acceptance sees the award-winning Chris Goode & Company producing the work of another writer for the first time. Every One received great critical acclaim when it was originally produced by the Royal Lyceum Edinburgh in 2010. The incredibly personal play was sparked by the death of Clifford’s wife, and draws from her experiences of the sudden death of her mother at a young age and her own feelings of mortality following heart surgery. Jo Clifford is most recently known for The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven, her one woman show featuring a transgender Jesus coming back to the world. She is an Edinburgh based writer, performer, poet and teacher with about 80 plays to her name. She is an associate … Read more
Jekyll & Hyde is confronting in many ways and squarely raises the question of where the line is drawn between unpleasant, complicit voyeurism and involving theatre. Even if you don’t care for Clifford’s version of the tale, something about it will haunt you. Disturbing and confrontational, but also thought-provoking.