by Angelo Irving | Oct 30, 2024 | Off/Stage Reviews
Hanif Kureishi’s seminal coming-of-age and state-of-the-nation novel gets its first staging in this extravagant adaptation by Emma Rice. The Buddha of Suburbia grandiloquently bursts onto the stage with a mix of raucous comedy and biting social insight, capturing the...
by Angelo Irving | Oct 5, 2024 | Off/Stage Reviews
Bristol’s bus boycotts and beauty pageants are the unlikely backdrop to Chinonyerem Odimba’s precious story of innocence infected by racism. First performed at Bristol Old Vic in 2019 and recently chosen to be a GCSE English text, Odimba’s story of a Caribbean family...
by Angelo Irving | Oct 3, 2024 | Off/Stage Reviews
Alzheimer’s disease tears at the fraying edges of a family whose fearsome but loving matriarch struggles with the realisation the disease is stealing her memories in this compassionate portrait from Tanika Gupta. Food will always be an irreplaceable mode of...
