War is good for business. In 2026, Brecht's Mother Courage at Shakespeare's Globe feels less like history and more like a warning. ★★★★

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In 2021, I read Planet Omar to my class on Zoom. Parents and siblings kept creeping into the frame to listen. Now it's on stage at the Unicorn Theatre and it is every bit as joyful as the books. 🚀

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There is heat in it: the particular, heavy, fragrant heat of the tropics, where life spills out of doors and onto the street because the walls cannot contain it." Four stars for The Harder They Come at Stratford East. Link in bio. 🌴

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Interview: Playwright Hongwei Bao on friendship, identity and the politics of sharing a meal: his debut play HOT POT opens at Playhouse East this June

http://redbuslondinium.uk/2026/05/29/hongwei-bao-new-play-hot-pot/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Review: 1536, three Tudor women in an Essex field watch a queen fall. Fierce, funny, and devastating.

http://redbuslondinium.uk/2026/05/28/review-1536-ambassadors-theatre-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

HMS Pinafore at the Tabard Theatre: A 1940s naval Pinafore with a cast who could fill the Albert Hall. Fifty of us got very lucky indeed. Pub theatre at its absolute finest. ⚓🎭

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Review: Redcliffe, Southwark Playhouse Borough ★★★½

Review: Redcliffe is a deeply personal act of reclamation, often genuinely moving, though it sometimes softens the very truths that make this story essential

http://redbuslondinium.uk/2026/05/27/review-redcliffe-southwark-playhouse-borough/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Review: Romeo and Juliet, Harold Pinter Theatre ★★★★

Review: Robert Icke's production of Romeo and Juliet highlights the urgency of time and youth, capturing their intertwined tragedy

http://redbuslondinium.uk/2026/05/27/review-romeo-and-juliet-harold-pinter-theatre-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

🎭 Dada Masilo's HAMLET at Sadler's Wells is a farewell and a statement. Fast, grounded, fiercely alive. The finale alone is worth the journey: a relay of rotations building into a wall of sound.

#DadaMasilo #HAMLET #SadlersWells #LondonDance #LondonTheatre #DanceTheatre #AfricanDance

http://redbuslondinium.uk/2026/05/25/review-dada-masilos-hamlet-sadlers-wells/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Kip William's Dracula: I cannot read Dracula alone at night. The novel seeps into the dark. This production, for all its spectacle, never quite finds that dread

📷 Photo: Daniel Boud

http://redbuslondinium.uk/2026/05/23/review-dracula-noel-coward-theatre/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social