Review: Becoming Shades, Vaults Festival

Review: Becoming Shades, Vaults Festival

Persephone, daughter of Zeus has been abducted. Deep in the Underworld she fights against her imprisonment which has brought perpetual winter on earth. This is the story of Becoming Shades, staged as part of the Vaults festival. The shadowy outlines of the forgotten...
Review: Goosebumps Alive, The Vaults

Review: Goosebumps Alive, The Vaults

This Is Cabaret rating ★★★★☆ Don’t look now but yet another new immersive theatre experience has landed in London. Is it any good? Based on the popular 1990s children’s horror novels written by American author RL Stine, this take on the Goosebumps books can be found...
Review: Hellscreen, The Vault Festival

Review: Hellscreen, The Vault Festival

“Who could you be if you lived without limitation?” This is the premise of Hellscreen, a play by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm adapted from a Japanese horror story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa published in 1918. Set in contemporary London, the story follows artist Frank Holt (East...
Review: Red Bastard, Vaults Festival

Review: Red Bastard, Vaults Festival

People talk about the politics of fear. They talk about the economics of fear. But few really talk about fear as the ultimate stage device. A device that forces the audience to look both around the room and within themselves. One that instils a psychological and, in...