Aliya Al-Hassan

3 weeks ago | londontheatre.co.uk | Aliya Al-Hassan

In a garden somewhere in Peckham, 82-year-old Myrtle laments her overgrown garden. Her cat has gone missing, her Irish neighbour is causing problems, and she has invited her grandson Rudy and his friend Jason to live with her without consulting her husband. Rudy has questions about his father, but Myrtle feels she cannot revisit painful memories. As her mind starts to betray her, those questions become more important than ever.

3 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Aliya Al-Hassan

Return to the forest this summer – a dream world of flying fairies, contagious fogs and moonlight revels. The seating is wrapped around the action while the immersive tickets allow the story to be followed on foot. Following its critically-acclaimed run in 2019, the Bridge Theatre’s five-star production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns for a limited run. What did the critics think?

3 weeks ago | londontheatre.co.uk | Aliya Al-Hassan

After a sell-out run at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre last year, Jordan Fein’s Olivier Award-winning revival of Fiddler on the Roof is returning to London at the Barbican Theatre this summer. Actor Lara Pulver is reprising her role as matriarch Golde, along with Adam Dannheisser as milkman Teyve. A previous Olivier Award winner for her role as Louise in Gypsy and nominated again this year for Best Actress in a Musical for Fiddler, Pulver is a stalwart of both stage and screen.

3 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Aliya Al-Hassan

Terence Rattigan's work remains a stalwart of the British stage. Richmond's Orange Tree Theatre has a particular fondness for his lesser revived work; lighter, frothier plays such as French Without Tears and While the Sun Shines. In Praise of Love, Rattigan’s poignant penultimate play, is a different proposition. Literary critic Sebastian Cruttwell is indulged and cossetted by his ever-patient wife Lydia who has been told she is dying.

3 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Aliya Al-Hassan

After two highly successful runs at the Bush Theatre, Anoushka Lucas's beautifully pitched and intensely captivating solo piece now arrives at the Menier Chocolate Factory in a slightly extended form. Focused on Lylah (played by Lucas) and her love affair with her piano, this 85 minute monologue squeezes a lot in. Starting as a seven-year-old working class mixed race girl, she is given a piano, falling in love immediately as it is winched through the window of her council flat.