14 stories by "George Washbourn"
In an ideal world, we all want to do something in the face of injustice. We all want to tackle social inequity, feed the homeless and save the polar ice caps. And yet, we can't quite channel…
Monologues are a risky business in theatre. Not least of all for the performer who, without the cushioned padding of their fellow entourage, bear their naked soul to potential rejection from…
Part of the ongoing RADA Festival, the curiously titled Lava Lamps, written and performed by Imogen Hudson-Clayton, is a dissection of modern womanhood in all its chaotic glory. Working her …
The hipster hub of The Pack and Carriage plays host to an entertaining and impassioned production of Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Vince A. Gill and Sasha Stamp, collectively VG Product…
Adapted from her own book of the same title, Soho Theatre welcomes Sarah Cameron's The Red Chair into the throng, in all its linguistic richness. A delectable, albeit overlong, flowing monol…
Taking inference from Ben Okri's novel The Famished Road, Benji Ried brings his 2007 show Mr Sole Abode to Shoreditch Town Hall. Constituting a brief insight into the solipsistic and fabrica…
The FIRST Festival of Solo Performances returns to the Tristan Bates Theatre with a flurry of monologues from up and coming playwrights. Three works-in-progress make up the evening's proceed…
"Another heavenly day," Winnie says spritely, as she is awoken by a booming claxon to her quotidian nightmare, laid out before us in this Young Vic production of Beckett's Happy Days. Her li…
UCL's Classical Drama Society takes on Euripides's final tragedy in this brilliant and lurid rendering of Bacchae. The Bloomsbury Theatre, with its intense low lighting and hanging drapes cl…
Once upon a time there was a grand tower, which stood on the banks of a great gushing river. Though it stood tall, gazing down over the people of the city, it was left to fall into disrepair…
"Why not Hamlet or Richard III or A Midsummer Night's Dream or Much Ado About Nothing?" Salient questions, all posed to Sophia Chetin-Leuner, director of UCLU Drama Society's rendering of Sh…
Old habits die hard, and some harder than others. These are certainly resounding words for Arty, the central character of Beached. Plagued by an addiction for food, he is the world's fattest…
While watching D.C. Jackson's play, I was hit by my own wall of nostalgia for my lost childhood. Summer days spent running through the local Kentish fields, bike rides, football games in the…
It is often said that the best writing comes from one's own life experiences. Whilst to follow this maxim seems frightfully limiting and, in my case, would almost certainly churn out some un…
