Hinging on a brilliant central performance by Adam Scott-Rowley, This is Not Culturally Significant is a dizzying one-man show jump-cutting from character to character. Over the course of an…
How to Win Against History is one of those plays at the Fringe that has the double-edged curse of "hype". Last year, it played in the tiny Box at Assembly George Square " this year, it's pla…
The title of Elinor Cook's latest play, with its double-meaning akin to Enduring Love, signifies a play that cruxes on duality. Best friends Lorna and Grace are two sides of a coin, doing th…
Part-gig, part-theatre, part-satire, Elsa, by Roundhouse Resident Artist Isobel Rogers, has a little bit of everything on offer. Roger tells us the story of Elsa, an artist working in a caf�…
You may have heard of real-life sisters Flo and Joan (real names Nicola and Rosie Dempsey) from their song about 2016 that did the internet rounds last year. Or you may not " they were at th…
Where to begin with Education, Education, Education, Wardrobe Ensemble's love letter to school in the 90s? It's brilliant " that's a good place to start. Focusing in on a chaotic muck-up day…
How to Win Against History is one of those plays at the Fringe that has the double-edged curse of "hype". Last year, it played in the tiny Box at Assembly George Square " this year, it's pla…
After an act of unfaithfulness, a seemingly ordinary British couple book a holiday together to try and salvage their relationship. We watch as the couple, Mark and Fran, attempt (a little lo…
Before Prom Kween even starts, I have glitter on my face and am singing along to the Spice Girls, the lyrics projected on a screen over images of famous RuPaul's Drag Race lipsyncs. This kic…
It's Tom's 55th birthday, and his daughter, Sophie, prepares him for a visit by two of his friends. But Tom has an unspecified degenerative disease that affects his memory and understanding …
Heather, created by theatre company Dancing Brick, twists and turns around the story of an unexpectedly successful fantasy novel and the elusive author behind it. Rife with Harry-Potter-esqu…
Wide-eyed, wide-mouthed, and completely in awe, a child no more than seven years old watches in amazement as a grown man in a skin-tight bee costume tells the angst-ridden story of losing th…
Set up in order to "reflect the diversity of the real world on stage", Clumsy Bodies is a queer theatre company formed by disabled artists presenting their take on the ancient Iphigenia myth…
Leaving Milly Thomas' play Brutal Cessation, I glance at the playtexts sold outside the theatre. One line on the blurb catches my attention: it suggests that one of Thomas's main questions e…
Hull " 1997, 2007, 2017. Middle Child's part-gig part-show All We Ever Wanted Was Everything hop-skip-and-jumps across time, telling the story of Leah, Chris, and their parents, examining ec…
Ah, “immersive”. That age-old buzzword. A word I’m usually cynical about "Â after all, it doesn’t really mean all that much. Surely all theatre is, or should be, im…
I don’t know about you, but I get a real buzz out of walking into a theatre I’ve already visited and having difficulty recognising the space. It’s something about being dup…
Abi Morgan's Fugee is the perfect play for the Southwark Playhouse Young Company. The characters constantly tell us that they don't exist, and that they're being played by actors who are tel…
At the beginning of the month, the announcement came that IdeasTap is to close on the 2 June. Following the news, it didn't take long for many of the site's members to speak up in support of…
February is a big month for comedy group Casual Violence. Their new show, The Great Fire of Nostril, runs at the Soho Theatre next week, immediately followed by the recording of a new "podca…
Since its establishment in 1981, London International Festival of Theatre " or LIFT " have been bringing bold and ambitious theatre to the capital with its bi-annual festival. This year's fe…
It's almost two months since Chris Urch's play Land of Our Fathers, finished its West End run at Trafalgar studios, but the playwright is showing no signs of stopping. Having won one of the …
When I enter York Theatre Royal for the press launch of TakeOver Festival, I'm hit with how buzzing and alive the foyer is. Music fills the room, courtesy of a ukulele band (the brilliantly …
There’s been some debate recently about realism, reality and realness, prompted by the Almeida’s current production of Little Revolution, which constantly springs to mind whil…
"I got an email from someone saying, ‘I'd like to reserve a ticket for The Love and Devotion of Ridley Scott," playwright Miran Hadzic laughs. "And I was like " it's not a biopic of Ri…