Kat Pope

Stanmer Park and House is a glorious destination on any day of the year but on a scorchingly hot Sunday morning with the Kite Festival just warming up and with breakfast and theatre on the menu it seemed an idyll. The garden was already full of people topping up their tan at 10am and people […]

A selection of your favourite Gilbert & Sullivan operas, performed by former singers with the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, will hit the stage of the Congress Theatre in Eastbourne this Friday. Accompanied by the British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, with conductor Anthony Kraus, it will feature a f

You could put forward a theory after watching Timber!, Southbank Centre’s newest circus act from Circus Alfonse, that its clunkiness, solidity, and general slowness is part of its authentic charm. It’s phooey of course, as the first and only real criteria a circus must fulfil is for it to entertain

“It’s 9pm and I’m waiting for my friend. I haven’t seen him in a long time.” So begins Tim Crouch’s exploration of friendship, growing up and responsibility, in his new work that opened the Almeida Festival of experimental theatre last night. And so it continues. It’s a constant refrain from Andy (A

Sitting on a gantry watching Lady Macbeth lying in a pool of red silk, whilst a witch whistles across the black space below, I wonder just what’s down there. A compacted, dusty floor is my best bet, seeing as I’m on the archaeological site of Bankside’s first ever theatre, and only London’s fifth. S