Writing
Alongside directing and performing, Althyr writes about theatre for Afridiziak Theatre News — one of the UK's leading platforms covering Black and Asian-led theatre and the broader London stage.
The show starts before the actual show starts. That is a gimmick I absolutely love. While the audience is settling down the cast is already setting the play in motion, asking if anyone has seen a dog that is supposed to be in the play within the play. Moments of laughter that ease the audience in.
Read full review →In the summer of 1984 the miners' strike was being crushed by Margaret Thatcher's government, while in London, the gay community was being afflicted by a disease the government refused to name. Two communities that could not have been more distant from each other, and yet somehow destined to be united.
Read full review →Beetlejuice the Musical does not want your tears. Although some songs are heartbreaking. It wants your laughter, your chaos, and your inner child. And it will get all three because every performer on that stage plays the absurd with complete seriousness.
Read full review →The importance of this play goes beyond the stage and educating a younger generation into Shakespeare — the real importance lies in using art to take them away from violent behaviour.
Read full review →A forest may be an unusual place to sell a cow or visit a grandmother, but it is certainly the right place to run from a prince and, no less importantly, to lift a spell. Tom Scutt's set design makes you feel genuinely surrounded by the forest — birds, a house, a tower, trees composing a landscape that invites the actors to play and fully immerses the audience.
Read full review →The play takes us on a journey of the symbolism of art and its importance without sounding preachy. The lines of beauty were present from the simple setting to the nostalgic music — an s-shaped form that defines what is beautiful, versus a flat straight line which represents stillness and death.
Read full review →Published on Afridiziak Theatre News — covering London theatre with a focus on diversity and representation on stage.