Written by Steven Dietz and directed by Ian Brown, Lonely Planet is set in 'Jody's Maps', a specialist store in the US, not unlike the shop in Helene Hanff's 84 Charing Cross Road.
Directed by Natalie Abrahami, Machinal is one of those rediscoveries that reflects the zeitgeist. Written in 1928 by Sophie Treadwell " eight years after all women in the US were allowed to …
Written by Ruby Lawrence and directed by Dave Spencer, The Yellow Wallpaper is a modern take on a short story from 1892 by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Lost Watch Productions has always been entertaining and had their finger on the pulse of today's burning issues, but Left My Desk is something special.
As much a chronicle of the origins of the Glyndebourne Festival as a metaphor for the pursuit of any artistic enterprise, David Hare's The Moderate Soprano (which is directed by Jeremy Henni…
Conor McPherson is one of my all-time favourite playwrights. Having made his name with plays such as The Weir, Port Authority and St Nicholas, The Night Alive in some ways harks back to his …
Beginning as a BBC radio play in 2009, Anthony Biggs' production of Gregory Evans' Shirleymander is a timely revival, and so on the nose in terms of topicality and relevance.
In Felicity Huxley-Miners' In The Shadow Of The Mountain, we see how mental health affects one young couple and the difficulty of acknowledging ' the elephant in the room'.
Theatre company Danse Macabre has taken the original conceit of Sartre's No Exit (three strangers who find themselves locked together in the afterlife) and turned it on its head. In their pr…
Had Mindgame not been advertised as a psychological thriller, I dare say the surprises would have a greater impact. Even so, it's enjoyable as a homage to true crime and the dark side of the…
In our post-#MeToo world, consent and the right to be free from harassment is all-important. However, in matters of cyber-crimes, the law is less prescript as it's harder to enforce iron-cla…
In Rachel Causer's Lippy (which is directed by Georgie Staight), she traces her life-long admiration for female comics " for their unabashed way of looking at the world and not conforming to…
What begins as a satire-cum-family drama in The Buzz veers into Death and the Maiden territory with the past being brought into account.
Semi-autobiographical in nature, Grotty " which is written by Izzy Tennyson and directed by Hannah Hauer-King " looks at the Dalston lesbian subculture in east London.
In Worth A Flutter, which is written by Michael Head and directed by Jonathon Carr, one man finds there what he thinks is the answer to his unhappy love life.
I've seen numerous productions of A Doll's House over the years, but this is the first one that's fleshed out what was hiding in plain sight " the overarching weight of the characters' worri…
The observations and insights that Bartlett injects in No Talking have an accumulative effect so that by the end of the play, we see the 'magnitude' of the absent conversation.
Written by Grace Carroll and Bryony Cole, WET looks at two friends' response to standard porn and how they would rectify it.
Dom Coyote's latest show We Can Time Travel is a personal odyssey that wears its influences on its sleeve.
It's no exaggeration to say that the in the round seating has brought an extra dimension to Tumble Tuck, allowing Sarah Milton to interact more readily with the audience and in keeping with …
Inspired by practitioners who climb rock faces without the aid of harnesses or other safety equipment, Free Solo tackles the subject of fear and whether one's passions can sit side-by-side w…
Exploring amongst other things the relationship between emotions, art and war, Moormaid is not easy to pigeonhole. Written by Marion Bott and directed by Zois Pigadas, at its heart is Meliss…
Presented by Acting Gymnasium and updated for the 21st century, Molière's The Misanthrope is directed by Gavin McAlinden and transposed to modern day London.
Inspired by a true court case in the US, Faceless " which is written by Selina Fillinger and directed by Prav Menon-Johansson " deftly tackles this conundrum with tact.
Written by Guleraana Mir and directed by Madelaine Moore, Coconut looks at Rumi (Kuran Dohil) a young woman in London and her efforts to find someone who truly complements her as a person an…