105 stories by "Frey Kwa Hawking"
Starting life at the Wandsworth Arts Fringe and sponsored by the Racing Post newspaper, Justin Hopper’s Flutter is an intimate but thoroughly
Seamus Finnegan’s I an of Ireland, directed by his longtime collaborator Ken McClymont. Finnegan trains the keenest of eyes on his country’s religious
It's very likely no person will ever have the same boundless charisma as Paterson Joseph: it makes him the perfect
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Taylor Swift and suburban marriages: Frey Kwa Hawking reviews the UK premiere of Mary Laws' play about a family breakfast gone wrong.
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Inappropriate texts: Frey Kwa Hawking on a disconcerting play about the impact of rape accusations.
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An ageing band of grifters hold forth in an Italian-run greasy spoon in Brighton, teasing the proprietor's daughter, bickering and, perhaps also,
The third recipient of the King's Head Theatre's Adrian Pagan Award explores a subject that's been done almost to death: the complications
H.R.Haitch, a 'new' musical comedy from Iris Theatre's Workin Process scheme three years in the making, has found a fitting
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Sleepless Theatre Company's Baby Box takes a long, searching look at female pain, strength and survival through the lens of
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Like nearly every one-hander, for all the possible production values, stimulating concepts and masterful writing, I, AmDram ultimately stands or
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A woman and a man are going to have sex. They need to have sex, in fact. It might be
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Over the course of Joan MacLeod's Gracie, we see the entire early life of a girl raised in a community inspired by
Benjamin Alborough's Cream Tea and Incest is less similar to the 'Daddy's Boy' skit in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt than I
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The heat is rising in the Alabama Delta. On an isolated fishing trip, Betty is trying to talk to her girlfriend Kendra,
Emotional labour is a necessary term, however misapplied it can sometimes now be, due to its high profile. John Fitzpatrick's Reared is sympathetic to the often unnoticed burden which falls …
Horror theatre, and horror comedies in particular, often leave you feeling grimy. FacePlant Theatre's The Service, now in a revamped form at the King's Head Theatre, has the advantage of ens…
Seething resentment: Bruce Graham's play applies the heat to an exploration of prejudice and hypocrisy in Philadelphia.
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Frigg Theatre is a Nordic company with an explicitly feminist focus, which aims to create original work "about subjects that are generally considered taboo". Domestic violence, the theme of …
This new version of Chekhov's Three Sisters, directed and written by Ross McGregor, largely leaves the play undisturbed in text and production: a depiction of the grinding awfulness everyday…
It's a fantastic story, in that it's one that is almost impossible to believe " yet, more fantastically, true " and brimming with potential. Francis Turnly's The Great Wave is the first full…
Frey Kwa Hawking explores the slippery territory of defining a dramaturg's role, and forging a practice in a world that requires both productions and people to be marketable.
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"Sit and bear witness". It's difficult; of course it is. In Foreign Body, the product of some four years of development, Imogen Butler-Cole trains everything she has at the subject of sexual…
The artists aren't just present, they're relentless. Action Hero's Slap Talk is more than a dialogue, and more even than a six-hour long dialogue, though its length goes straight to some eye…
I should have loved this play. I'm into Christ, I'm into being gay. Terrence McNally's script, in the right hands and possibly another context, can probably reach beautiful and painful level…
DumbWise does not quite live up to their big claim that they have "reinvented" the gory myth of the house of Atreus with their Electra; unfortunately, there isn't too much here to distinguis…
