Corn Mill Theatre in County Leitrim present Steven Berkoff'sThe Metamorphosis 22-23 May 2026.

The director is OisĂ­n Hourican and the cast are Connor Sheridan (Moyne), Michele Ciba, Paddy Sheanon, Taragh Donohoe, Connor Sheridan (Bailieborough), Sinead Conefrey & Sarah McGearty.

"'As Gregor Samsa Awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic Insect...- A gripping look at family loyalty, secret resentments, and what happens when a loved one becomes a burden. A fast-paced, stylish drama that asks the ultimate question: Would you still love me if I was a gigantic dungbeetle?".

The theatre website is here
https://cornmilltheatre.com/

For more on Metamorphosis click here
https://iainfisher.com/berkoff/berkoff-play-adaptation-kafka.html

Leo Noboru Lima gives the 15 best British films in Looper, 12 April 2026.

15. Women in Love, Director: Ken Russell
14. The Souvenir, Director: Joanna Hogg
13. Maurice, Director: James Ivory
12. The Lady Vanishes, Director: Alfred Hitchcock
11. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover, Director: Peter Greenaway
10. Performance, Directors: Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell
9. The Other Side of the Underneath, Director: Jane Arden
8. Blue, Director: Derek Jarman
7. The Long Day Closes, Director: Terence Davies
6. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Director: Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
5. The Third Man, Director: Carol Reed
4. Morvern Callar, Director: Lynne Ramsay
3. Secrets & Lies, Director: Mike Leigh
2. Lawrence of Arabia, Director: David Lean
1. The Red Shoes, Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

For the Looper site click here
https://www.looper.com/2125631/best-british-movies-ranked/
For more on Women in Love click here
https://iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-film-women-in-love.html

My Children My Africa! is presented from 22 July- 4 August 2026 at Artscape Arena in Cape Town, South Africa.

"In a township classroom in the Eastern Cape in 1984, an idealistic teacher attempts to instill a love of learning in his gifted pupil, but political unrest and the generational divide soon culminate in an explosive conflict with tragic consequences. Athol Fugard’s seminal 1989 play, My Children! My Africa! presents a candid and moving portrait of a country on the verge of revolution. This modern classic is Fugard’s hymn to the power of youth, education, hope and ideas".

For the theatre website click here
https://www.artscape.co.za/
For more on the play click here
https://iainfisher.com/fugard/athol-fugard-plays-port-elizabeth.html

Crossroads Theatre in New Brunswick present Sizwe Bansi is Dead in collaboration with John Kani.  It plays from 19 May- 14 June 2026.

The director is Ricardo Khan.

"One man’s death becomes another’s salvation in this indictment of South Africa’s Apartheid system which lasted through the 1990s.  Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, was written by South African playwright Athol Fugard in collaboration with John Kani and Winston Ntshona. Both actors/playwrights, Kani and Ntshona received Tony’s in 1975, for their starring roles in the play’s Broadway production. The Crossroads production of Sizwe is in collaboration with John Kani, the last remaining member of the writing team".

For the theatre website click here
https://www.crossroadstheatrecompany.org/
For more on the play click here
https://iainfisher.com/fugard/athol-fugard-statements.html

The Globe Cinema in  Calgary present Ken Russell’s The Devils on 3- 12 April 2026.

“The most controversial film of the 1970s was banned across the world for its deliriously overheated, shockingly blasphemous tale of sexual frenzy and demonic possession in a seventeenth-century French convent.  Based on Aldous Huxley’s novel The Devils of Loudun and John Whiting’s play The Devils, Ken Russell’s X-rated spectacle of the depraved stars Vanessa Redgrave as a hunchbacked nun whose lust for priest Father Grandier (Oliver Reed) sets off a perverse witch hunt and unleashes an orgy of sadomasochistic sacrilege”.

I'm not sure about the cinema's description -deliriously overheated, spectacle of the depraved etc, but the film is good.

For the cinema website click here
https://globecinema.ca/
For more on The Devils click here
https://iainfisher.com/russell/ken-russell-film-the-devils.html