Tamsin Flower

1 week ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Tamsin Flower

The pursuit of excellence is more often seen in glimpses and flourishes. But if it were to be made obvious anywhere, where better than in the peaking athletic artistry of a world-class youth ballet? It could seem excessive to devote a whole evening’s programme to the youth company of a national outfit, but the Finnish National Ballet's Youth Company offering at The Linbury Theatre (ROH) put any qualms about this to bed.

1 week ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Tamsin Flower

Isabella Coracy’s Creatures is a short piece of brilliance. Taking on a costume aesthetic of urban decay and mystery, it is a triptych showcasing the strengths of its three dancers with presence and impact. Creatures begins with the figure of dancer Megan Chiu demonstrating a fluidity of movement that ripples through the back, neck, head and finely tuned extensions in ways that are not always achieved in modern ballet.

3 weeks ago | tamsinflower.co.uk | Tamsin Flower

Let’s talk about islands, or at least distant places where the waterline is visible on waking, and sand, softer than a grainy sandwich in Margate, is a footstep from your bed. The Below Deck Series – a real Titan of streamed TV from Bravo – gives audiences well curated pieces of this dream while also delivering a family of young adults who have thrown caution to the wind and fully invested in it.

1 month ago | tamsinflower.co.uk | Tamsin Flower

Guilty pleasures TV – The Secret Lives of Mormon WivesThis blog is for pure unadulterated pleasure – it bears no relationship to my theatre writing-making, the life of the poetry scene or PR for any particular person, thing or myself. In fact, I’m writing this on a Saturday morning, which shows how much I want to write about click-bait TV…for pleasure. So let’s get to it.

1 month ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Tamsin Flower

Athena Stevens’s new play, Diagnosis, is an unusually buzz-worthy project. Not only does it place a protagonist with cerebral palsy at the centre of its world, it comes on the heels of her suing The Globe for harassment and discrimination during her employment there.