LYDIA (The Space/Chalk Roots Theatre/BonaFide Studio)****

  

By Cal

Link: https://space.org.uk/event/lydia

Available until: One more performance on 23^rd May at 7.30pm

Growing up is an interesting process. We all have to do it at some stage. We’re usually a bit too anxious to get there and when we finally do, we often change our minds and want to be a kid again. We tend to assume grown-ups know everything and then we’re either disappointed with them when we find out they don’t, or we’re thrown into chaos when we hit eighteen and realise we still don’t know everything. It’s not the easiest thing in the world to do, and yet we get very little choice in the matter.

THE BLACK CAT (Threedumb Theatre/The Space)****

  

By Cal 

Link: https://space.org.uk/event/the-black-cat-livestream 

Available until: Livestreams 25^th and 26^th March at 8.30pm.

Warning: This show contains scenes of horror and violence (including towards animals) which some viewers may find disturbing.

Throughout lockdown, theatre companies have experimented with various different ways of telling a story. Most have gone with the tried and traditional way of acting out a script. It’s a format that works and I don’t think it’ll get old anytime soon. There have also been online readings of stories with actors as the narrators.

GOOD DOG (The Space)****

 

By Cal

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9K_QH3p3zI&t=9s

Available until: Unknown

This film is called good dog in lower case so I am going to write it that way in this review. It was adapted by Natalie Ibu from a play with the same name and stylisation by Arinzé Kene. The film was commissioned by The Space and supported by the BBC and Arts Council England and directed cleverly and sensitively by Ibu and Andrew Gillman, telling us little, showing us a lot – but not showing everything.