72 stories by "Holly O'Mahony"
“The Game's Afoot!” shouts a police detective, in Sherlock Holmes-esque fashion. Armed with a pen, a map and an initial clue, we separate ourselves from the other 40-odd audience…
“History is freedom, history is imprisonment,” says one character in Blitz Theatre Group and Nikos Flessas’s surreal play Late Night, which excavates longings born from mem…
Shook Up Shakespeare's Midsummer Madness brings something a little bit different to this year’s commemorations marking 400 years since Shakespeare’s death. With party games, a ra…
The Deep Blue Sea was first performed in 1952, a few years after it was written by the already successful playwright Terence Rattigan. Based largely on Rattigan’s own closeted relation…
Sexual fantasies, fictional bombs and racial hatred are just some of the themes explored in Love, Bombs & Apples. Written by Hassan Abdulrazzak and directed by Rosamunde Hutt, this play …
Sideways: The Play enjoyed a sell-out stint at La Jolla Playhouse in California, and now this Pinot Noir praising, Merlot pounding comedy has arrived in London. The production is directed by…
Knife Edge features chicken and chips, and big dreams for a girl who knows she deserves more from life than the abandonment and abuse she's received thus far. The play is produced by The Big…
Labour rebels, a bereaved mother of a blown-up soldier and a disconnected upper middle class couple all feature in the first half of Out of Joint's A View From Islington North. In the latter…
Alice is sprawled face down on the water-soaked tarpaulin. Her husband Michael sits cross-legged watching her. She’s dead, and Michael must move on, eventually. But what if he’s …
Something's not right with Georgie. She's turning 40 and she's lost her heart, hope and other h's along the way.
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James Cairns' solo performance in Nick Warren's Dirt is a Brighton Fringe must see, with Cairns asserting his talent for physical comedy, characterisation, accents and dynamic facial express…
"Have you ever been dumped?" Rosie Wilby asks the room of anonymous faces, coaxing us to open up before delving into her own five year relationship and subsequent breakup with an ex-girlfrie…
Is the nine to five routine a mistake that's gone on so long it's now too embarrassing to fix? Lucy is an office manager at an asset management firm, by title that is. However she's not prep…
Batting crumpets and punchy satire at their audience, fiery feminist duo Louise Mothersole and Rebecca Biscuit " aka Sh!t Theatre " bring their boot-stompingly fun show Women's Hour to the B…
The Marked weaves fantasy and fairy-tale into a story set on the streets of modern day London. Jack (Samuel Fogell) is a prince-cum-man who has grown up in the grasps of a damaged queen, his…
Wired Theatre's Dancing in the Dark takes us behind closed doors to tell a story of a dysfunctional, middle-class family consisting of a mother and her three grown-up children. Set in Bright…
You may well have heard of, or seen, a production of Shit-faced Shakespeare before. Well, it's back in time for Shakespeare 400 celebrations, and this time in the form of Magnificent Bastard…
George Orwell, under his birth name Eric Blair, quit his middle-class life to live amongst the poor whilst writing his 1933 novel Down and Out in Paris and London. Nearly a hundred years lat…
Who is the dependent: he whose legs have been physically blown off, or he who is mentally compelled to nick his legs with a knife over and over again? Blue on Blue, written by Chip Hardy (fa…
Matthew Warchus's new production of The Caretaker at the Old Vic theatre sees Harold Pinter's tragicomedy performed with an impressive set, humorous gusto and a cast including Timothy Spall …
Fye and Foul's Cathedral plunges its audience into near darkness, letting audio take the lead in their latest show which features fragments of tape recordings " the voices of two former love…
It's an uncomfortable truth that torture is taking place in silenced pockets of the world, as I write now and later as you read. Mario Benedetti's play Pedro and the Captain aims to tell the…
A girl who is deemed inferior to the damaged and/or questionable men surrounding her is the subject of Eimear McBride's award-winning novel, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, now adapted for th…
"Can you maybe just tell me what is going on? I'm really spooked," says Brett (Norma Butikofer) in a statement which seems to capture the entire experience of watching Crude Prospects, th…
Anthony Green's new production Hamlet Peckham splits Shakespeare's protagonist into three Hamlets, each played by a different actor. Hamlet one (Sharon Singh) is 'the problem', Hamlet two (M…
