What makes Glitter Punch so compelling is the detail of the respective lives and how amidst life's slings and arrows, there are moments of beauty and solace that make it seem all bearable.
Some plays are great for most of their duration, but they're let down by their ending. The Wedding Room is solid entertainment throughout, with a twist at the end that satisfies.
Patricia RodrÃguez and Mercè Ribo's show Derailed is an amalgam of improvisation, personal anecdotes and music, it fuses these disparate elements to create a wholly original show.
Christina Baston gives a heart-felt performance in Tales From Star City as the communications prodigy who becomes the conscience of the Soviet space program.
Version 2.0 at the Leicester Square Theatre is a thematically dense play, that takes an unusual route to working out one's emotional baggage in public
Exploring the hypothesis that another person took Bonaparte's place on the island of Elba, Napolean Disrobed (which is directed by Kathryn Hunter) has a premise that is inspired by likes of …
What Goes On In Front of Closed Doors subtly highlights how intelligence and former economic status have no bearing on the susceptibility of homelessness.
In Ad Libido Fran Bushe not finding a 'cure' in the end for her Female Sexual Dysfunction gives the rest of us permission to have less-than-stellar sex lives. In the end, finding a special s…
Recalling the minutiae of one's teens, Amy Tobias taps into the heightened emotions from that period and obliquely shows how growing up is full of doubt and questioning " a perfect attitude …
Having the power to change how one is treated by men " that is at the centre of Conquest. And while the impetus to shake things up in the play begins at a personal level, it later sets its s…
There's no one quite like Witt 'n Camp. 'Singing' classic rap songs in the style of opera, Charlie Howitt (Witt) and Holly Campbell (Camp) have subtlely dispensed with the distinctions betwe…
Philip Ridley's Angry is a series of gender-neutral monologues which vary in length and intensity, but most importantly all feature moments of anger (or anger-based incidents integral to the…
In Bump, directed by Michael Woodwood at The Vaults, the collision of two individuals one fateful day forever changes their respective lives.
Volvas' The Vagina Dialogues is often humorous with a broad appeal, but there also is a weight to the more serious topics, like an iron fist within a velvet glove.
Imagine you could take a pill that could bestow prolonged periods of effortless intense concentration. Written and directed by Alex Benjamin, Cotton looks at this hypothesis through the angl…
With laughs, wit and social commentary in abundance, Elsa " at The Vaults " will surely put Isobel Rogers on the map.
True to form, Ron Elisha's play The Soul of Wittgenstein is set during the Second World War, but while one of the protagonists is steeped in profound thoughts, the play is so much more than …
With other classic karaoke hymns such as 'I Will Survive' punctuating the show, Tempest Rose's La Revue en Rose sends its audience out not with a heavy heart, but with a reminder that life i…
Katie Arnstein's Bicycles and Fish at The Vaults really is fun " guaranteed to put a smile on everyone's face, while also having something of substance to say.
Imagine a domestic black comedy written by Martin McDonagh. It's a bit of an over-simplification, but that's kind of the flavour of Erica Murray's debut play The Cat's Mother at The Vaults.
With scientists speculating that advances in computing will lead to artificial intelligence, it's not so hard to believe that in the near future, there will be an attempt to create 'articial…
Writer/performer Ian Bonar enters with a portable keyboard/organ. This immediately makes me think of James Rowland's 100 Different Words For Love, which was performed at The Vaults last year…
Written by Madeline Gould and directed by Tilly Branson, Anonymous is a Woman's Think of England at the Vault Festival takes an unexplored perspective of women in wartime Britain.
From one perspective, the path that Aanesah endures in Little Did I Know can be seen to be a microcosm of women over thousands of years, always hoping for a better tomorrow, but enduring har…
In Brad Birch's Black Mountain, we meet Pau and Rebecca who have taken a trip to the countryside. It's soon apparent this 'retreat' isn't for a rest or holiday, but a chance to talk about th…