Review: Hair Peace – Victoria Melody
Victoria Melody is an award winning, critically acclaimed, exciting performance artist. She takes every day stories, often of British eccentricity and turns them into fascinating and hilarious...
View ArticleRead College finds new home at St. Bart’s Theatre
Local performing arts school, Read College, will be moving to a new permanent home this September at St. Bart’s Theatre in East Reading. St. Bart’s Theatre is Reading’s newest performance venue, which...
View ArticleReview: Rituals for Change – South Street
Rituals for Change begins with an axe and some blocks of wood. A woman, in a dress, dares to attempt to cut it. It fills me with anxiety as, never having tried it, I assume that I wouldn’t be able to,...
View ArticleReview: A Little History of the World – Reading Rep
A Little History of the World is, frankly, delightful. If you hear about a play that is an adaptation of a book that tells the history of the world, I think you’d probably imagine that it was going to...
View ArticleReview: Love, Loss and What I Wore – The Mill at Sonning
This new production, a UK premier, has been produced by The Mill at Sonning, a stalwart of repertory theatre, whose audience are loyal regulars, predominantly hailing from the surrounding leafy and...
View ArticleProgress uses theatre to bring memories back to life
Progress Theatre have relaunched their dementia care home project ‘Hidden Lives: Stories to Remember’ to mark World Alzheimer’s Month this September. The project had a positive impact on the residents...
View ArticleReview: WriteFest – Progress Theatre
For ten years now, Progress Theatre has been using Writefest as an opportunity to showcase local talent, and as currently one of the only platforms for new writing in Reading I would say this year’s...
View ArticleThe Winter Giant to walk down Broad Street this Christmas
A spectacular outdoor show will be coming to Broad Street this Christmas as the 20 foot tall Winter Giant will be walking through Reading town centre looking for a place to call home. Taking place on...
View ArticleReview: How We Live Now – Colour of Fruit
Last night marked the World Premiere of ‘How We Live Now – An evening of comedy on a nebulous theme‘ by Colour of Fruit; a posse of practitioners based in Reading with an impressive collective back...
View ArticleReview: Suddenly Last Summer – Progress Theatre
Suddenly Last Summer, widely considered Tennessee Williams’ starkest and most poetic work, may be a short piece of theatre, but it’s intensely demanding of both cast and audience. Set in a sultry 1930s...
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