KXT on Broadway, May 13 7.5/10 No, that’s not a typo in the title: this is Welsh playwright Gary Owen’s contemporary take on star-crossed lovers, now set in Cardiff rather than Verona. His Romeo – called Romy (rhymes with “foamy”) – and Julie also have problematic parents, but there’s no…
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Ensemble Theatre, May 6 8/10 Given the depravity, cruelty, hatefulness, bullying, vulgarity and duplicity that fill our news cycle, how refreshing it is to encounter an affirmation of humanity’s better side. It turns out we’re not inherently such an appalling species: we just seem to default to behaving that way.…
Antahkarana 8/10 What a great title. Antahkarana, the latest instalment of The Three Seas’ 13-year voyage into a previously uncharted fusion of traditional Bengali music, jazz, dub, pop and more, is Sanskrit for “inner instrument”. This refers to the place inside us where memory, intuition, identity and soul converge. Add…