26 stories by "Hattie Pierce"
Robert Icke's Hamlet, at Almeida Theatre, has been eagerly anticipated, particularly since the announcement that Andrew Scott would be playing the lead. Icke's productions of Oresteia and Un…
In Marietta Kirkbride's new play The Long Trick, Tristan lives aboard a boat on the Helford river in Cornwall, and reluctantly robs second homes to support himself and his teenage daughter, …
Gemma Arrowsmith's comedy sketch show Earthling is a series of sketches which present the best and the worst of humanity to an objective alien observer. Arrowsmith is fixated by the events o…
Luke Courtier's latest show, The Texas Tax Man, is a meta-theatrical comedy about freelancers and the shame of missing the self-assessment tax deadline. Two shy, thoughtful cowboys set out t…
The Union Theatre's decision to put on a rendition of Anyone Can Whistle is exciting: it is a lesser known Sondheim musical which has never enjoyed much fame or success. Â It is a strangel…
Liz Carr, actor and prominent disability rights activist (D-list celebrity, in her own words), brought the enormous and tangled issue of euthanasia to the stage in Assisted Suicide: The Musi…
Marisa Carnesky and her group of Menstruants have created a fantastically provocative and hilarious show which seeks to undo the taboos surrounding menstruation. This group of eight daring p…
In A Pickle was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and originally performed as part of The World Shakespeare Festival in 2012. It is a totally immersive show designed for 3-5 year…
Cyphers' production of The Three Musketeers sets itself the ambitious task of reducing the whole of Alexander Dumas' dense and action-driven story into a comedy stage production, using just …
Mad Meg is a fine piece bringing together music and dance to tell a simple but very memorable tale, as the finale to the Blue Elephant Theatre's ELEFEET Dance Festival. The piece is devised …
In Your Face Theatre's returning production of Trainspotting is first and foremost a show, rather than a piece of theatre. Having moved into a bigger venue at The Vaults on its return to Lon…
Set in the top of a lighthouse in an unfamiliar past or future dystopia, The Acedian Pirates explores the morality and logic of war through the story of a failing occupation. This play knits…
From Velvet Trumpet comes James McDermott's debut piece, Rubber Ring: Â a one man show about growing up gay in a rural Norfolk village. McDermott writes and performs in this open account o…
Maud Dromgoole's new work Acorn is a highly intelligent play in all aspects. It is a two-hander which uses the myths of Persephone and Eurydice to tell a contemporary story about female stre…
Ross Sutherland's first drama Party Trap is an entirely palindromic play (title included) in which every line in the first half of the play is repeated in reverse in the second. Out of these…
The use of physical theatre in this production is its main strength and certainly hints at the great potential this young company have. Marrying this physical theatre with a science-based st…
In this inventive and ambitious piece of theatre, SharkLegs pulls off an impressive feat by making an interactive adventure story both touching and very, very silly. Gavin Plimsole finds out…
Cats, Selfies and the Scattered Mind of the Incurable Dreamer is a verbal collage; a comedic piece of internet verbatim which is also a loosely coherent narrative about two strangers connect…
Sarah Tattersall has written and produced a strong debut show in Sally's Alright. It's an engaging mix of a show, in which Tattersall plays a 20-something 'washed-up woman', now cleaning a c…
Thunderstorm's busy opening night at the London Coliseum marked the opening of The Shanghai Season. Shanghai Opera’s Thunderstorm was developed as an opera from the play of the same na…
Fury is playing as part of the 'Who Runs The World? Girls' Autumn Season at the Soho Theatre, and it starts off the run on an exceptionally high note. Phoebe Eclair-Powell's newest play, whi…
David Hare said of verbatim theatre, that it "does what journalism fails to do". Lanna Joffrey's verbatim play Valiant, which is playing as part of the Women in War Festival, brings together…
Lulu Raczka's brilliant double monologue Grey Man, playing at Theatre503 this week, was developed out of a one-hander first performed as part of the Shakespeare In Shoreditch festival in Apr…
The constancy of Marc and Bella Chagall's love for one another from the moment they met until Bella's death was a consistent influence on Marc Chagall's work. Their love also provides a c…
This Much (Or an Act of Violence Against the Institution of Marriage) is a richly detailed and astutely written piece about the difficulty of being certain of what we want from our relations…
