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Scared of the dark? If you’re not, you may well be if you go to the Pleasance Theatre’s Insti2ute. At most other theatrical horror shows around London like Ghost Stories and Terror 2010, the shocks come at arms length while you recline in a comfy …

If you saw last year’s show The Institute then we offer our congratulations. Firstly for getting tickets to the sell-out run, and secondly for surviving. We hear it was murder in there. Now, the government has bailed out the Islington lab’s owners and the Minister …

Carlos Molina and Sebastian Hick in the publicity for “Now let me tell you about my…” by Hyanglae Jin The first Cloud Dance Festival of 2010 presented a hugely mixed bill, featuring seven very different pieces, at Pleasance Theatre, last night. Here are our highlights: …

Kinisi Dance Company Trouble and Desire marks the return of Cloud Dance Festival for another year of new contemporary choreography and we can’t wait to see how will they follow their excellent end of year ‘best of’ showcase last December. Slanjayvah Danza are back “by …

CandyKing Theatre produces classic plays alongside new writing, as in their double-bill The Serious Business of Choosing a Mate. New writing from Jeremy Green in Fairytale and Anton Chekhov’s rarely seen The Proposal form a light-hearted, amusing, slightly uneven evening. There are romantic misunderstandings, dashed …