by Manisha Balkissoon | Mar 18, 2022 | Off/Stage Reviews
Marikiscrycrycry’s emo/Afro choreographed homage to Tupac takes us on an unnerving journey exploring the icon’s dubiously intricate mental health, attempting to restore his humanity to a society that refused to look him in his eyes. In 1995, facing sexual abuse...
by Manisha Balkissoon | Mar 14, 2022 | Off/Stage Reviews
This spitfire of a show adapts Andrea Levy’s award-winning book of the same name: an exploration of disillusionment of the Windrush generation, who immigrated to the UK after WWII, and who – disconcertingly reminiscent of modern times – confront the impossibility of...
by Manisha Balkissoon | Jan 24, 2022 | Off/Stage Reviews
Young Vic’s associate company, Crying in the Wilderness Production’s transcendent piece delineates a journey of a tormented and traumatised ‘genius’, as he rummages through his memories to reveal that his past, present and future seem to be perpetually in conflict....
by Manisha Balkissoon | Dec 5, 2021 | Off/Stage Reviews
Self-proclaimed ‘The Wonderful’ rightfully earns its title as it invites us to enter an alternative Oz, an Afrofuturistic, multi-dimensional reality in which fierceness, fearlessness and feeling are given new life and meaning. Suzann McClean and Geoff Aymer rekindle...
by Manisha Balkissoon | Nov 22, 2021 | Off/Stage Reviews
Darren Raymond’s ambitious reinvention of the beloved Shakespearean tragedy subverts age-old tropes, conventions and expectations, ultimately birthing a distinct tragicomedy, that can only come from Intermission Youth Theatre. It is either a fools remit or a wise...
