Grenfell on stage: can a harrowing new play help the drive for justice?
Dictating to the Estate uses documentary evidence to tell a story of everyday heroism and scandalous political neglect.
While the nation commences its parties for the Queen's Jubilee this weekend, there [...]
Excerpt from the Onstage Blog review for Suffragette City, London Pavilion.
"Suffragette City is an immersive experience in which participants are taken back to 1913, and a recreated “Suffragette HQ”. During the hour-long production, participants become actively involved in two Suffragette-style missions. The production is [...]
"A thoroughly immersive experience, Suffragette City certainly requires a good dose of active participation and willingness to play the game to be fully enjoyed. From engaging with the Suffragettes (Ariane Barnes, Natasha Langridge, and Eleonora Russo), to standing up to the arresting officer (Canavan Connolly) [...]
Excerpt from Rev Stan's Theatre Blog review for Suffragette City, London Pavilion.
"I'm walking down Jermyn Street trying to look casual while being vigilant. I've got a package to post in my bag and if found with it I could get arrested - I'm a [...]
Excerpt from the LondonTheatre1.com review for Suffragette City, London Pavilion.
"It is 100 years since the partial granting of the vote to women, and Suffragette City is here to remind us what life was like for women in those days. The London Pavilion that serves [...]
Excerpt from the Mind the Blog review for Suffragette City, London Pavilion.
The entire company is admirably committed to their roles, be they Suffragettes (Ariane Barnes, Natasha Langridge & Eleonora Russo), Interrogating Officers (Edward Andrews, Ralph Bogard & Padraig Lynch) or the Arresting Officer (Canavan [...]
Excerpt from the Ought To Be Clowns review for Suffragette City, London Pavilion.
Do you believe in equality? Would you use violence to achieve your aims? Can you make a rosette? Suffragette City asks all these questions and more in a thought-provoking immersive experience in [...]
Suffragette in the Snow: The National Trust & National Archives create a Suffragette City; an experience marking 100 years since the partial granting of the vote to women.
The immersive experience uses National Archive records to recreate the life of a [...]
Excerpt from the Gasholder review for Suffragette City, London Pavilion.
"It’s February 1912, and Lillian Ball – a working class dressmaker and mother-of-three from Tooting – has just received a letter from Emmeline Pankhurst. Having spent the last few years in the Women’s Social and [...]
'Regeneration means demolition': Artist performs monologue about destruction of her home in west London.
The monologue is being performed on a barge at three docks across London.
West London-based Natasha Langridge is performing an emotional monologue about the demolition of her home on the Wornington [...]
A review excerpt from The Play's The Thing UK by Laura Kressly.
Since 2013, Natasha Langridge has watched her neighbourhood become unrecognisable. As the developers and their machinery creep ever closer with every passing month, she documents their journey along side her love life. Birds [...]
"Both a love letter and a lament to London and its obscene housing crisis, In Memory of Leaves is an intensely personal one-woman show exploring love, loss and gentrification. Performed on a boat that will cruise the canals of London, this play touches on poignant [...]
Tucked up on a boat on the Grand Union Canal near Westbourne Park station, I feel an immense sense of community with my fellow audience members. We’re packed in, physically touching, and bound together in this powerful moment of political theatre. Outside, London roars: emergency [...]
Excerpts from Fringe Review by Simon Jenner:
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"… It’s a unique experience, where Langridge works with Jayne McVeigh on supple fluid movement through the barge’s space, and Lisa Goldberg’s dramaturgy perhaps helps to tighten and interrogate the appalling assault of real events on [...]
In Conversation With Natasha Langridge | In Memory of Leaves | Interview by Olivia Mitchell, Editor
Following on from Memoirs of a Tree, Natasha Langridge returns with, In Memory of Leaves. This monologue describes Natasha’s experience living in a block of flats on the Portobello [...]
Hi Natasha, could you tell me a little bit more about In Memory of Leaves and what audiences can expect?
"A rhythmic roller coaster of passion, rage, sex and politics. It’s the raw truth from the mouth of someone (me) living through the emotional and [...]
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Natasha Langridge interview - Why I'm performing my work on a wide beam barge.
Natasha Langridge wrote her monologue, titled In Memory of Leaves, in the wake of her home on the Wornington Green Estate in Kensington being demolished. They [...]
Natasha Langridge tells us about touring London on a canal boat with a tale of destruction and love, In Memory Of Leaves.
Meyer Whitworth Award-winning writer and performer Natasha Langridge tours In Memory Of Leaves around London this October. There's nothing unusual about that. Many [...]
In Memory of Leaves, Natasha Langridge:
“Add to the wave; we are at a point where it is sink or swim.”
100 days on and the scorched tower remains exposed and bare. The tragedy at Grenfell Tower, in which at least 80 people [...]
Had a great interview today at the BBC Radio London with Nikki Bedi, who was standing in for Jo Good to promote In Memory of Leaves On a Boat.
‘In Memory of Leaves’ and the Power of Site-Based Work.
Theatre is a collaborative art form, communicating its story and ideas through text, design, direction and performance. But another integral part of this collaboration is the physical theatre space itself. For Natasha Langridge's solo piece [...]
Following on from Memoirs of a Tree, performed at last year’s InTRANSIT festival, Natasha Langridge returns in 2016 with another immersive monologue inspired by local life. In Memory of Leaves describes Natasha’s experience living in a block of flats on the Portobello Road council estate [...]
“In Lisa Goldman’s production there are scenes of tenderness and of violent fury. Yet while Shraddha is linguistically interesting, beneath the distinctive language is a straightforward story of forbidden love and its trials, not dissimilar to Romeo and Juliet... Shraddha has energy [...]
Shraddha, Soho Theatre ;
Warmhearted account of love among the Romanies.
Oh dear, poor Pearl is in a bit of pickle. She's 17, and her mum wants to know what she's doing talkin' to Joe, a young lad from the local estate. After all Pearl [...]
This is a play for the Angry Young Woman generation — full of spitting rage and sardonic streetwise contempt. Sexually abused by drug-dealing great uncle and physically abused by her boyfriend, Eva refuses to succumb to the victim mentality, and instead fashions herself as a [...]
Promoting dyke sex?
Marcel Wiel finds out how lesbian sex helped Beverley find happiness.
After a string of successes, Natasha Langridge's 'Beverley - A One Woman Oddity' is another winner for the Tristan Bates Theatre.
Actress Valerie Frances plays the heterosexual Lorraine Chase-type talking [...]
Beverley, Gilded Balloon (Edinburgh Fringe Festival).
STARTLINGLY portrayed by Valerie Frances, an unfeasibly tall actress with the ultra-lean skyscraper frame of a predatory supermodel, Beverley is a mini-skirted Cockney sex- addict, thrill-seeker and drug-freak. More to the point, the apparently street- wise Beverley is also [...]
Beverley - Tristan Bates Theatre (Fringe)
Although its described on the flyer as a 'one-woman oddity', Natasha Langridge's pert monologue isn't that unusual. Like many other plays about women, it depicts a twentysomething longing for love, respect and a wonderful kitchen, who inevitably dates the [...]