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New award to highlight benefits of dance on mental health

1 day ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Vera Liber

For Mental Health Awareness Week, the Royal Academy of Dance (and mental health charity SANE will be launching an award in memory of the late dancer, Strictly Come Dancing star and SANE ambassador Robin Windsor who died in February 2024.
IF: Milton Keynes brings UK and world premières

1 day ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Vera Liber

IF: Milton Keynes International Festival is to return 18–27 July 2025, featuring two world premières and 4 UK premières from Germany, Spain, Catalonia and France. The biennial festival will feature installations and performance, outdoor spectaculars, circus, comedy, cabaret, live music and free family activities. In times of change and challenge.
BRB2, Carlos Acosta's Ballet Celebration; Diaghilev and the birth of modern ballet

2 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Tamsin Flower

In 1929, Serge Diaghilev’s company of enfants terribles disbanded to form balletic institutions across the world, with Ninettte de Valois famously planting the roots of a Royal Ballet in Britain. So, it is apt that Birmingham Royal Ballet’s young, international company has wrestled with bringing The Ballet Russes repertory to life.
Generation Blue - A Night with Boy Blue

2 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Vera Liber

Energetic and energising is par for the course with the award-laden Boy Blue, "Educate, Enlighten, Entertain", their motto. Generation Blue speaks of almost a quarter of a century of commitment to the cause. What an achievement for its co-founder artistic directors, choreographer Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy MBE and composer Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante MBE. Sandy is visible and vocal, whilst there’s a running gag that Asante is locked in his dressing room and they can’t find the key—with a video to prove it.
CatGPT from Lentil Industries at Rotunda Theatre Brighton: Bubble

2 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Sandra Giorgetti

If there were an award for most bonkers show at Brighton Fringe, I think CatGPT would be a shoe-in. Ten years ago, Lentil, Robin Wealleans's cat, died, and he embarked on a project to resurrect it in robotic form. L3NT1L now lives and tours festivals as the world's most un-PC life coach.
Mistero Buffo from A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Ayr Gaiety at Òran Mór, Glasgow

2 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Donald Stewart

It hardly seems possible that 35 years ago, I was sitting at Borderline Theatre's future new venue—the converted Darlington Church in Ayr—whilst the BBC were filming Robbie Coltrane performing this very same one-man play. But here we are 35 years later, and Franca Rame and Dario Fo’s masterpiece, the most “blasphemous play in history”, is back speaking truth to power. And how that has become such a cliché, particularly in the context of where we are today.
Theatre review: Light Fantastic from Ensonglopedia at Komedia Studio, Brighton

2 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Sandra Giorgetti

Ensonglopedia's John Hinton and Laura Mugridge have written and now perform Light Fantastic. It is a high energy comedy aimed at 11- to 14-year-olds in which the pair play Iris and Rod, old friends who reunite to re-stage an ill-fated, science-based rock gig they did at school thirty years earlier. Explaining light from different angles, it covers life's big questions like why is the sky blue, how can you hear light, and how do the sun's rays create the colour green?
Open Source Intelligence and Counterinsurgency for the Jobbing Hater

2 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Sandra Giorgetti

Open Source Intelligence and Counterinsurgency for the Jobbing Hater is a thought-provoking comedy by Gawa Leung who plays Lili, a Chinese actress who uses the titular OSINT to stalk Eve, an actress of the same casting type, in order to feel better about herself.
Parlour Song from Greenwich Theatre at Greenwich Theatre

2 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Sandra Giorgetti

Prior to their demise, thanks to the success of what (for brevity) I will call "records", parlour songs were a common entertainment enjoyed by many in the front room of their Victorian homes. Sheet music was widely available, and, amongst the classes who could afford some leisure time and a musical instrument, singing these folksy, often sentimental songs was a very popular pastime.
The Mad Ones from Electric Press at The Other Palace

4 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Amy Yorston

How do you know what you really want when everything around you is changing? That’s the question The Mad Ones poses as we meet Samantha Brown (a stunningly vulnerable Dora Gee) at a pivotal point in her life. There are college admissions, a protective mother, driving lessons and an irritatingly dependable boyfriend.